When the river takes over

Holding on tight, but we don’t want to fight any longer
Looking around, the circle so profound
but I am different
I’ll tell them everything
just not of what she did
Not about the war I fled and that I think it’s all my fault
Not about the innocence he tore out of my happy limbs
Not about my child who died when I stopped eating things that lived

I want to live

We’ll lie down here, and I drink one to the fear
It's a new day call, when the bitter turns to gold

We’re running on a fever now
She’s burning up the weeds in our minds
It’s freezing, everything is screaming
There’s no need to throw out lines
the fish already saw you coming miles away
with their purple paint, spreading out, covering the ceilings
I never shared my feelings
because I thought that would give me more love
and keep the thunder tight in a box

Oh, there they go, the towers that we showed
when we were so young, protecting the fort
But it was centuries ago, and how can you save
when you don’t really know what you guard in your garden?
So get off your throne, he said to me
And I stared in his eyes and agreed
my thoughts exactly

We’re talking to the water now
She’s drowning all our sorrows
It’s time, the river is taking our blood over
There’s no need to hold your breath, the trees already made the air
You think it’s you breathing in
but here it comes

they give everything

You can lose someone, but you can never lose the love
You can leave a home, but you can never leave yourself
You can lose the wind, but you will never lose the ground

You’re going to be found

We let it go, we don’t want to fight any longer
Looking around, I’ve fallen apart
and now I know I’m a part of us