if i m a desert my face is the wind i know where i m going and i know where i ve been you re the horizon and the wide open space and i surround you caressing your face there s not a limit to the things that i d do i d give you stars but the stars wouldn t do you re like the lava burning buried below an eruption but too early to show we are islands hear our sirens and so we wait we wait cause when pressure heightens our coal makes diamonds and so we wait we wait the flood comes shifting the soil our blood runs thicker than oil it s like erosion cutting straight to the core no human nature ever felt this before and we become an unbreakable vow i wanna hold you up higher than most because it feels like flying out we are islands hear our sirens and so we wait we wait cause when pressure heightens our coal makes diamonds and so we wait we wait  we are islands hear our sirens and so we wait we wait cause when pressure heightens our coal makes diamonds and so we wait we wait wait down in front of me wait down1