Reflections On The Motive Power

If you are constrained to put your water wheel
Halfway up a waterfall
You can extract at most half of the available energy
You can see me through the bars
Where you keep me in the corner of your room

Happy just to see the back of your shirt
Empty as me, but for a cow heart
My dirty wings, not what they were
Sizzling cardiac thudding blood moon
Like sailors on a cruise, we can't lose
'Cause I'm happy just to see you

Fishing for the key, you let me out
Dance with me a little while
My dirty wings, not what they were
Spinning, dizzifying, signifying what we were
Now I know I can't fly
I'm not in your life
Time lied
Time lied

Feathers are falling and so am I