The Mercury Tree - Otoliths

OTOLITHS Every day splits me in two  Make it three including you.  Reaching outward for a place to step  With no regrets I find  Different faces every time, Your embrace occluding mine  Though you never meant to go,  Just couldn't stay I know why.  Remove the sky  Remove the sky  To keep the sky from falling.  Remove the sky  Remove the sky  To keep the sky from falling.  Same obstruction on each side,  Your retreat enables mine.  I could never give you  Anything you didn't have before.  Are we lucky just to find  Something new to leave behind?  Sit and breathe in the exhausting trail  Of failure at no cost.  Remove the sky  Remove the sky  To keep the sky from falling.  Remove the sky  Remove the sky  To keep the sky from falling.  I might have known  You'd grow these stones.  Deep in your ears  I've watched your cells.  Divide themselves  To build these cysts,  These otoliths.  [I might have known  You'd grow these stones.  Deep in your ears  I've watched your cells.  Divide themselves  To build these cysts,  These otoliths.] x 2 I know what I know  I know what I know  Now that I know what I know that I know  How do I know that I know?  Remove the sky  Remove the sky  To keep the sky from falling.  And fill your ears  With what you hear  From me But don't believe  Where we exist In otoliths.