Lyrics Effigy of Salt - Maria McKee

What a way
What a way to go
What a fine and inexplicable way
Of going with

What an uncanny visitation
Taking me into the depths
Of leaving me stranded

What a way
What a way to go
What a peculiar and exquisite way
Of going with

I've been ready
I've been willing all along
And all the way down I go
And you will never know

Just how far down I let you
And it's all the way I go

Just to look at you
One last look is all I take
Before I have to go

Just to look at you
Like an effigy of salt
I'm swept away

I sparkle forth
In diamond rays
I fall forever

Just to look at you
And it's down, down, down I go

I hate the things I know
I wish I could retrace my steps
Before I went down to the sea

Where I crept along the depths
And prodded underneath
All along and far too deep
At every creature
Every foundling
Every horrid gaping mouth

Just to look at you
One last look is all I take
Before I have to go

Just to look at you
When the lexicon is emptied out
Of every thought, every breath
There is no language left
But just to look at you
And it's down, down, down I go

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh

My beloved, my curse
How you ripped me open
And you've heaped upon my hearth

And the many things that you have required of me
How they frighten and inspire me
The arch of your brow
The way everything's laid out

Just to look at you
One last look is all I take
Before I have to go

Just to look at you
The honey of your skin
The heart shape of your mouth
Oh, there I go again
I'll leave it out

Just let me look at you

And it's down, down, down I go

(Down, down, down I go)
(Ooh, ooh)
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
(Down, down, down I go)
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh (Down, down, down I go)
Oh, oh, oh (Down, down, down I go)
Oh, oh, oh (Down, down, down I go)

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh (Down, down, down I go)
Oh, oh (Down, down, down I go)