The Carp

In a pond of silver shadows, we were born without a name
Just golden flashes circling, all the days would look the same
But I felt a distant thunder in the silence of the deep
A current pulling at my scales while the lily pads would sleep
They said, "Be still, don't question why the world above is just a myth"
But I saw a dragon in the water every time the moon would drift

We're the sparks beneath the surface
We were made to kiss the sky
Let the waterfall embrace us
Watch the carp become the dragon tonight

Beneath a ceiling made of emerald, I would push against the tide
Every ripple was a promise that the waters couldn't hide
The elders whispered, "Know your place, the stream is not for ones like you"
But a river's waiting somewhere with a wild and different blue
Now the surface tension trembles, there's a roar beyond the reeds
I'm not trading fins for nothing, I was born to overreach

We're the sparks beneath the surface
We were made to kiss the sky
Let the waterfall embrace us
Watch the carp become the dragon tonight