It's Not the Lighthouse (Bonus Track)

Lyrics and Musical Arrangement: Quinn Jackson
Created with Udio.
Copyright © 2024
It’s not the lighthouse I was expecting;
having put the lamp to light and
hoping for ravens.
It’s the darkness I feared;
having spilled on my back and into my vision
and down through my nostrils
and through to my lungs
and out of my pupils,
shot out feelers across the faces
across ten thousand disgraces
into the heat of temporary embraces.
[guitar solo]
It’s not the Lighthouse!
Run from the light! Those are rocks!
Watch your step! Do not fall!
Don’t drown again and again and again
in the spray like that day,
fall instead into ink and blink and belief:
fall into me.
[cello solo]
It’s all calm
Sometimes happy, sometimes sad.
Life is an undulation. Don’t trust the Lighthouse.
Your eyes will burn if you stare
into the ecstasy for too long.
Turn away from the Lighthouse.
Face the other way.
Watch the shadow you now cast,
with the flame and fury behind you
and the field ahead of you, with
the shape of who you may become
dancing among rocks, feathers, and dragonflies.
It’s not the lighthouse I was expecting;
having put the lamp to light and
hoping for ravens.
It’s the darkness I feared;
having spilled on my back and into my vision
and down through my nostrils
and through to my lungs
and out of my pupils,
shot out feelers across the faces
across ten thousand disgraces
into the heat of temporary embraces.
It’s not the Lighthouse!
Run from the light! Those are rocks!
Watch your step! Do not fall!
Don’t drown again and again and again
in the spray like that day,
fall instead into ink and blink and belief:
fall into me.