Bloodwood

It started with a crack
A splinter in my center
Not thunder, but longing

And as a rib unfurled
A bird landed in my chest
And called it a heart

I'm not blooming
No, I am breaking, yeah
And it sounds like a song
If you're listening close

The blood in my veins
Was never mine alone
Carried sky, carried ash
Carried every name I knew

The blood in my veins
Was never mine alone
Carried soil, carried song
Carried every root of home
Home

The leaves I once wore
Like crowns, now wilt at my feet
I trade green for blood
And it stains me beautiful

What a curious thing
What a lovely spin
And then you touched me
Soft as moss and I knew
Why we choose to be soft
Even when it hurts

I'm not blooming
No, I am breaking, yeah
And it sounds like a song
If you're listening close

The blood in my veins
Was never mine alone
Carried sky, carried ash
Carried every name I knew

The blood in my veins
Was never mine alone
Carried soil, carried song
Carried every root of home
Carried every root of home

They call me alive
But life comes with hunger
Desire feels like fire
Licking the bark from my bones

I kissed someone
And I understood the reason
Why trees reach
And why they never ever stop

I touch my face
A foreign name
A forest buried in bones

I realise
It's all the same
And feeling is louder
Than rain on leaves

I'm not blooming
No, I am breaking, yeah
And it sounds like a song
If you're listening close

The blood in my veins
Was never mine alone
Carried sky, carried ash
Carried every name I knew

The blood in my veins
Was never mine alone
Carried soil, carried song
Carried every root of home

The blood in my veins
Was never mine alone
Carried soil, carried song
Carried every root of home