Meanwhile Lyrics

Read the complete lyrics to “Meanwhile” by Caroline Polachek from the album “Songs”. Browse more Caroline Polachek songs or search for other tracks.

Artist Caroline Polachek

Album Songs

Length ~1 min read (80 words)

About “Meanwhile”

This song is a reworked version of one of Caroline’s unreleased songs, called “Vanities”, which was referred to as an “interlude”. The lyrics of “Vanities” also reference a volcano and the word “meanwhile”. Below are the unreleased lyrics: My hair is black from drug store black My lips are red from red The volcano isn’t done singing The songs aren’t done being awake in the dark You are not done writing me and I am not done waiting The dog is not done waiting for its owner in the rain The sky is not done playing I am not done with the book you gave me and I don’t wanna be Meanwhile, I’m here to learn As with the 1,500,000 ibises in Sakara That everything you want will require unfathomable violence The cherishing and unleashing of the same But nevertheless…

How do you know if a volcano is dead or just patient?
It's restless, like me
High above in the second sea
Our bathwater never cools
Meanwhile, out of the heavens
A swan plummets to earth, transfixed

Down here where the woodlice work
Restless, like you
Both halves of this severed rock will crumble to sand
For if a thing can live then it can also die
Meanwhile, walk beside mе
The unretraceablе path of god's lightning back to god