Текст песни David Sylvian — I Swallowed Earth For This

I swallowed earth for this:
a strawberry leaf
twisted
the wind glided by water

Matter
in the layer between
crushed in time

Matter
what they left behind
can be read on an arrowhead

Dripping stone
geologically: all we know
broken skull, broken rock

extracting information
in the hardest of materials
at the back of the neck

finding language
close to the lungs

expanding matter
darker
in the grass
in a drop of water
is earth not
what we came from

a compression of
a true material
expanded at its brightest point
a supernova
on a petal

and so we are ancient enough
in the beginning, volcanic:
gas, water, cells

in the sediments
in hollows, levels; uppermost:
bone, tissue, organs

visible in time
we expand heat from fractures
part the growth rings of trees
with amber and rust

boned from evolution
you are, I am
a lecture on fossils

we think that the watery substance
before the thinkable
is a sound in memory
a language we peer beneath
from the sound of marrow and fibres
thinkable enough, certainly

Out of these places
two types of grammar:
we inflect trees
analyse a riverbed
years laid down in codes microbes millions atoms
in animals and the residue of plants