Andromeda-Heather Styka

[ti:Andromeda] [ar:Heather Styka] [al:Lifeboats for Atlantis] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Andromeda - Heather Styka [00:15.75]When I was very young [00:17.78] [00:19.17]My parents bought a lake [00:21.50] [00:22.06]It was more of a marshy pond in the middle of nowhere [00:29.16]But it was our pond each year we returned in summer [00:35.02] [00:35.66]When Tyler's ice cream shop reopened in town [00:42.32] [00:44.15]Now Tyler's closed his doors and retired to Florida [00:50.92]I'm at the water's edge at the end of October [00:57.36] [00:58.10]It seems wilder now [01:01.07]With the trees all barren branching out [01:04.36]Like dark nets into a cold blue sky [01:11.41] [01:26.61]The water is so calm [01:29.41] [01:30.23]Everything's reflected [01:33.47]Reflecting all the years that have passed by [01:40.17] [01:40.67]I used to sit on this pier and look into the depths [01:46.78]Like it was a crystal ball [01:49.16] [01:50.06]That could show me destiny [01:53.56]Our rowboat was a raft [01:56.41] [01:56.93]All patched and filled with air [01:59.78] [02:00.38]I preferred to stay back on the shore [02:06.17] [02:06.84]Each sunken log meant danger and it always made me nervous [02:13.65]To let anyone else control the oars [02:22.10] [02:35.50]At night the pier was where I learned my first constellation [02:42.34]Andromeda was the galaxy closest to our own [02:49.08] [02:49.77]Perseus' prize Cassiopeia's daughter [02:55.56]She must have wondered too [02:58.95]What her fate was on her own [03:03.20] [03:17.76]I've never seen the lake [03:19.79] [03:21.01]This calm so settled [03:23.92] [03:24.70]Comparing it to glass [03:26.87] [03:27.84]Couldn't begin to describe [03:31.22]But a knowledge in me waits [03:34.50]And reminds me that those depths [03:37.70] [03:38.60]Are murky as ever [03:41.92] [03:42.87]Churning deep inside