Take an axe to your past


To your family tree

Carve a face from the wood


An effigy




Make wings from the leaves


Hide from the bark


Kindling for the hair

Rose for his heart





Someone to draw you right

Someone to catch the light





Draw the blue from the skies

Into his eyes


Carve the lines on his face


A map of the race




Juice from the root


Of a beet for his skin

Set the tides of the blood


With the pulse of the drum




Someone to draw you right


Someone to catch the light


I'm alive, I'm alive




Wash the boy in the stream


So tenderly

Press his lips to your lips


Give him your breath




He awakes with the weight


Of the vision he holds


Sees the rent in time

Through which he must fold





Someone to draw you right

Someone to catch the light

I'm alive, I'm alive




Stir the heart with a drum


Kiss smoke in his mouth

Show him signs of a life

That's a whole lot better




And he calls down the rain


Tornadoes and hurricanes

There's a world in his veins

That's a whole lot better




I'm alive, I'm alive



Fingers raised to the sky


A snake for a spine

He's drunk on a life

That's a whole lot better




Teach him songs of the bees

Double helix and honey comb

Play him wind through the leaves


That's a whole lot better



Alive, I'm alive


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