The Ocean Floor

it's hard to get a solid breath down here
 my lungs are burning
 the pressure is as thick as my fear
 but it's worth what I'm learning
 'cause down in these depths I can see
 our history unfurling
 come, I'll show you what we've lost
 light's just a memory down here
 like lost change in couches
 there's nothing for as far as I can see
 but remnants of houses
 and up and down abandoned streets
 I count the empty cars
 and these skyscrapers don't scrape a thing anymore
 the earth reclaimed these homes
 took this world in as its own
 now it grows along the bones
 draws life from what we'd sewn
 there are worlds beneath our world
 hidden deep beneath the skin
 we always peel the layers back again
 we peel the layers back again
 we peel the layers back again
 we peel the layers back again