The previous song ended with a question — Someone’s coming — suspended in ellipses, suspended in crisis. She Glides on Waves is the answer. Rescue arrives in a subtle way. It is not a dramatic announcement. It is a person who already knows what to do.
Lyrics
Just finished training, cutting back to shore,
Snagged my binoculars, habit from before.
Yacht in the bay — yeah, something’s off, for sure,
Heeling and reeling, drifting wrong toward the door.
Could be nothing. Could be everything.
Don’t wait. Don’t think. Just go.
Thumb hits power — motors singing,
Board lifts up and now I flow—
Running on waves, flying on blue,
Hydrofoil slicing the surface clean,
Grey sees a girl coming straight out of the blue,
Like the sea sent a ghost from a waking dream—
I turn around — and there she is,
Standing on air above the tide,
Not swimming — flying — what is this?
My brain just stalls, can’t categorize—
She hooks the rail, she’s overboard,
Glide-suit dripping, precise and sure.
Who are you?!
The one in charge right now.
The skipper—
I see him. Move aside.
Furl the jib — now.
Ease the main — hands off!
Check the gearbox — clutch is fine.
Engine start — there.
Rudder steady — hold the line.
Her hands don’t shake,
Every move’s tight,
She’s not thinking — she just knows,
She’s already halfway through the fight.
The yacht responds, the bow comes round,
Away from stone, away from death,
The engine locks to a steady sound,
And all at once I steal a breath—
And let me say..
We cheated death today.
A Modern Fairy Tale collides their paths.
