Blank, my paper folded up for flight But gravity just pulled it down All soiled and worn, a leaf reborn To feed the swarms, and I sold it out Then sank with all the buoyancy of breath As it's exiting my heavy chest When all is set a'blaze despite the ways You try and change its progress
When chance lit the forest on fire and leveled all we'd Come to love and admire, up through the black floor Green stems grew up higher, and from that day we knew That flowers would bloom...
Loose the knot and cut us from the cloth These nets that caught our hungry stares And showed us sight so plain, as right as rain The joy and pain of breathing air So open up your lungs and fill them up The songs I have sung, they started there And this, our hallowed ground now burning down The fate our hearts were bound to share
When chance lit the forest on fire and leveled all we'd Come to love and admire, up through the black floor Green stems grew up higher, and from that day we knew That flowers would bloom...