Lirik John Mayer Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967
- dreamed to discover a new space and buried himself alive
- inside his basement
- tongue on the side of his face meant
- he's working away on displacement
- and what it would take to survive
- cause when you're done with this world
- you know the next is up to you
- and his wife told his kids he was crazy
- and his friends said he'd fail if he tried
- but with the will to work hard and a library card
- he took a homemade, fan blade, one-man submarine ride
- that morning the sea was mad and i mean it
- waves as big as he'd seen it deep in his dreams at home
- from dry land, he rolled it over to wet sand
- closed the hatch up with one hand
- and pedaled off alone
- cause when you're done with this world
- you know the next is up to you
- and for once in his life, it was quiet
- as he learned how to turn in the tide
- and the sky was aflare when he came up for air
- in his homemade, fan blade, one-man submarine ride
- one evening, when weeks had passed since his leaving
- the call she planned on receiving finally made it home
- she accepted the news she never expected
- the operator connected the call from tokyo
- cause when you're done with this world
- you know the next is up to you
- now his friends bring him up when they're drinking
- at the bar with his name on the side
- and they smile when they kid, as they speak of the man
- who took a homemade, fan blade, one-man submarine ride
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