Your entire body shakes you when laugh
As if your sense of humour was built on a fault line
And the coast of your heart
Falls into the ocean of yourself
And I'm left looking for this Atlantis
Left looking for this place
That exists in the stories told by old men
Who were there when mathematics assured them
Their willingness to believe
Was greater than their determination to dismiss
I'm left looking for Atlantis
Regardless of the scientist that insists
My efforts would be better spent
Unearthing clues to where the wild things went
Try as it might
Faith can't put a dent fact
So we must settle for science re-enact the world
As if the universe was curled around this globe
And if we consider that the universe is never ending
Then we're not even a microbe
We're like a death threat from a pacifist
We're nothing
But the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that
Nothing is fo' shizzle
And the interesting thing about that
Is that it ensures that the principle itself can't even be a fact
But we still act as though
This time we can see the forest through the trees
Regardless of the soft wood lumber levies
We fall in line like reforested pine
It's all straight rows
Were everything grows a little less wild
A little more humdrum
Ho, hum
We come from the mentality
That rarely sees the horror in symmetry
Or the beauty in non-conformity
We insist that for us
Everything must be clear cut
But what about philosophy?
What about the tree that fell in the forest
That no one was around to hear?
It's a little less clear
A little more deep
Deep like
If Oprah Winfrey farts in a bathtub
And no bubbles come to the surface
Is there an alternate universe
Where the price of gas is cheap?
Possible
But we can't prove it
Any more than we can prove
That light can move fast enoug
To stop a monster hiding in the closet
We deposit our faith in fear
But clear our minds to the possibility that
Maybe we as adults
Still get scared of the dark
Things that go bump in the night
And I can't prove that I've ever loved anyone
But despite the smoking
And the overweight body
I want to grow old with you
Go through muscle and joint pains
To the point that every time it rains
We can feel it in our knees
Get arthritis so bad
That every time we move
We sound like two bowls of Rice Krispies
We're all snap, crackle and pop
But we still take the time to stop
And take the time
I'm looking for Atlantis
Letting faith turn this fiction into fact
As if I tracked this missing continent for decades
And all I know so far
Is that it is somewhere under water
I'm looking for clues in the most blurry photos of UFOs
And thinking
If alien are so smart
Than why don't they start making their spaceships look like airplanes?
That way we'd just point to the sky and say
An airplane, how common place and not at all suspect
We're all shipwrecked on this idea
That everything has to be explained
But maybe we just need to believe
That lemmings jump off cliffs to prove that they love us
And sure
That sacrifice is as empty as the box of condoms
That politicians used when they thought they could f*ck us
But it is nice to believe that somebody up there
Cares enough to plummet onto jagged, back-breaking rocks
In an attempt to tells us
We're beautiful
Tell us that as far as life goes
Our finger prints are like snowflakes
We leave them on everything
But they melt in the time it takes to touch someone's tongue
But if we're lucky
Maybe we're rememered
Along with the sunken cities of a lost continent
This is for each child
Who is a monument to the one's who came before
Maybe the best we can hope for
Is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing
That we're born out of love
And not science
That biology explains the how
Love explains the why
So in the event of our deaths
We hereby bequeath all of these words to you
And they are only meant to say that
Uncertainty is something everyone goes through
And there is not much in the way of proof
But believe me, we loved you
We held our breaths for your first step
Your first word
We laughed when it finally occurred to you
Lemons are sour
This is for every time
Love becomes the finest minute and the darkest hour
This if for those who scour the streets
Wondering where the wild things went
For the believers who leant us their madness
This is for everyone we miss
And this is for the children who were lost
Sadness is nothing more than the cost of being able to smile
Once in a while
And grief is the trial we stand to offer evidence
That your finger prints were left on our hearts
And our skin
And in terms of proof
Love can be demonstrated in giving
Our lives consist of the efforts we give
In swimming towards the lost continent
Where you are rumoured to be living