Little Rabbit describes the view from the edge, never ready or knowing how to breach it. This song touches on core experiential themes of the album such as liminality, paradox, and non-conceptuality. This song also initiates a sense of her isolation.
lyrics
In the center of the universe
There’s a precipice
Where I would dangle my legs
Let ‘em hang out in space
In the center of the universe
There’s an infinite drop
Where if I leap on a whim
No one knows where I would go
But the rest of my days
Curl ‘em back to honest ground
Though every inch of this place
Wants to melt away
Cause the edge is the knife
Cause the edge is the middle
Where we battle the muses and they open their hands
Touching a line to the wide open mind
To the void, drag me along,
away somewhere, from the hall of mirrors
Where I’m not ashamed about being alive
If I’m even alive . . .
On the edge of the precipice
There’s a pinprick pool
Warm and immaculate
Quiet as the night in the forgotten place
I look to the stars
Endless but not enough
The perfection of all things, right here
Had to cut me like a knife.
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