[Lyric] Snakebite lake (A small bird)

[Verse]
A ramp-less highway through a wild wood—
Your smile, which never looked so good
Cuts through the dark; the car is warm
Thick and boiling like a growing storm

[Verse]
You put your failures to the side
Kitschy ornaments and kitchen knives
You don’t need anything tonight
That Snakebite Lake does not provide

[Chorus]
Aphrodite’s long-forgotten daughter
Dives headfirst into the water
And though you watched the dive so close
The surface seemed to be all solid stone

[Verse]
They shed the cracking skins they wore
And leave thеir old suits on the shore
And though it’s winter, thе water’s warm
A kiln in which a god is formed
[Verse]
All rise up on mountain legs
Vested in green and violet threads
Garlands of amarylls on every head
A round of sudden, sodden, steely breaths

[Chorus]
Phanes’s children, sons, and daughters
Swim like dancers in the water
And you don’t even take off your shoes
Just stand there willing laces to come loose

[Bridge]
Come loose!
Come loose!
(The color of a morning rose,)
Come loose!
(lavender and olive oil,)
Bm Am6 Gmaj7 F6
Come loose!
(As befits the bath of Virgo,)
Come loose!
(warrior in woman’s mold.)

[Chorus]
The grey-eyed goddess’ forgotten daughter
Watches the figures in the water
Clad in the most absolute arboreal ardor
Brighter still than the yester-evening’s stars were