I bought a ship in a bottle
And set it out to sea
Hoping my captain
Would one day find me
Reckless and hopeless
And timeless and free
Splinters on the shore
Bowed head and bent knee
Put my heart in a bottle
And set it to the breeze
It danced alongside kites
And the birds and the bees
From that day on
It didn’t belong to me
In hindsight, there’s something wrong
With a fragile heartbeat
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