Anchor baby

there was a beautiful girl
who came from the sea
and there was just one place
that she wanted to be

with a man named walker
who played in a band
she would leave the ocean
and come onto the land

he was the one
that she wanted the most
and she tried everything
to capture this ghost

but throughout all their lives
they never connected
she wandered the earth
alone and rejected

she tried looking happy
she tried looking tragic
she tried astral projecting,
sex, and black magic

nothing could join them
except maybe one thing
just maybe..
something to anchor their spirits..
they had a baby

but to give birth to the baby
they needed a crane
the umbilical cord
was in the form of a chain

it was ugly and gloomy
and as hard as a kettle.
it had no pink skin
just heavy gray metal

the baby that was meant
to bring them together
jsut shrouded them both
in a cloud of foul weather

so walker took off
to play with the band.
and from that day on,
he stayed mainly on land

and she was alone
with her gray baby anhor
who got so oppressive
that it eventually sank her

as she went to the bottom
not fulfilling her wish
it was her, and her baby..
and a few scattered fish.

Tim Burton - London - 1998/2005