1. |
Where I Belong
07:27
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My heart grows heavy.
I don’t know who I am.
It feels like any wind can blow me down.
The water thins me.
The fire tears right through.
I need to put my feet back on the ground.
I pull into the driveway.
I leave my phone behind.
My bare feet find the edge of paving stones.
My old friend birch tree
awaits with open limbs
to hold me in its roots as I go home.
(CHORUS)
I go to the woods where I belong.
I go to the woods where I feel strong
and at my heart’s insistence
I can let go all resistance.
I go to the woods where I belong.
Where I belong.
I hear the singing
the laughter of the trees
I close my eyes and let my breathing slow
The way opens inside me
A red path leading down
to a hole in the stone w here the bubbling lava flows.
I submerge my body
into Gaia’s womb
I feel the forces pulling on the flow.
In that raging torrent
I feel a peace inside
A piece of the Divine among the whole.
(CHORUS)
And for a moment
I am everything.
A whole universe looking in a mirror
As the universe
I just have to know
what I am like and where I choose to go.
A drop of desire falls
and the mirror moves
and ripples in the gravity of impact
More drops follow
the mirror bows and shakes
and breaks when the last drop makes contact
(CHORUS)
The shattered sand explodes
I watch one tiny fragment
go flying toward a pale blue dot
That small speck hits me
sitting ‘neath my birch tree.
And I’m in the woods alone with all my thoughts.
And suddenly I know
ROUND 1
We are all god
All of us together we are all god
We are all god.
All of us together
All of us together
We are all god
ROUND 2
I am a speck
one of many
looking out
with my one track mind
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2. |
Love Me Now
03:36
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You broke my heart.
You broke your vows.
I go so used to making it work.
Doing what it took to hold this together.
This love is poisoned.
I won’t drink it down.
and now I’ve let go.
CHORUS
I used to, I used to
I can’t do that for you anymore.
But darling, but baby
I can’t be that for you anymore.
I’m learning to love me now
I’m learning to love me now
I’m learning to love me now.
I’m learning to love me now.
You want me back
You miss me.
I’d love nothing more than to love you again
to fall back into the familiar
this love is poisoned.
I won’t drink it down.
and now I’ve let go.
CHORUS
BREAKDOWN
I used to, I used to
but darling, but baby I
I’m learning to love me now
I’m learning to love me now
I’m learning to love me now.
I’m learning to love me now.
I’m learning to love me now
I’m learning to love me now
I’m learning to love me now.
I’m learning to love me now.
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3. |
Come Around
05:58
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I hold my heart open
for you to walk in
expecting you to march through and claim what I would give you
but you’re taking your time
inspecting the state of this space
You notice the wear and tear
the crumbling pieces
the repairs that I’ve completed and ones under way
in the unsureness of my smile
the way I hold my shoulders
CHORUS
I love that you are looking
not to judge but understand
and I love that you see me
in all of everything I am
You see the beauty in my breakdown
the light through the walls I’ve let down
You know what it means to let you come around. (2nd: stay around)
I hold my heart open
in defiance of my fears
all the tears and wasted years that I refuse to brace against
and you’re taking your time
and my stomach flutters
I could still slam the door
but you’re cautious and you’re kind
You ask hard but honest questions to be sure what’s on my mind
and my smile relaxes
and I stand a little taller
CHORUS
I hold my heart open
sure of where your heart resides
We share the burdens of the other as we see what we will find
Your heart is tender
I know your heart is true
We hold each other
In this full but empty bliss
You never take what I would give you you enjoy it where it is
in this freedom we have made
I have no need to run.
CHORUS
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4. |
Pretty
07:05
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I cinch my form in
shapes and colors like all the others
who've come before.
Told to be sexy, but to be pure
But I don't want to be either
I want to be more
than what you'd make of me,
accepted as I paint myself
in the dreams that I'm afraid to be
Because you may not like my way.
CHORUS
But I want to be naked and feel at peace
every line and crease is meaningful
A road map of stories of where I've been
every inch of me is beautiful
From inside true beauty shines
Like stars in pools of oil in the city
It's messy and wild and it'll blow your mind
that beautiful isn't always pretty.
You map uncharted waters
across my skin when I begin
to let you in
Truth is harder to know
than you realize
when I believe my own lies
that hurt me inside
the stories change around
to make me out as hero and villain combined
At war with all I feel
that no one can see but me.
CHORUS
But I want to be naked and feel at peace
for every line and crease is meaningful
A road map of stories of where I've been
Every inch of me is beautiful.
from inside is where true beauty shines
Like stars in pools of oil in the city
It's messy and wild and it'll blow your mind
cuz beautiful isn't always pretty.
What if who we are
is more than skin and the sins
that make us seem the same
What if we dare to be different
to speak our minds
but do it with kindness
and a will to be free-
Dom comes when we take a hold
Of the only thing we can control
And make ourselves who we want to be
Can you see what I see?
So I'm done with blame,
with victim shame
With pointless fronts
and opinion games
These walls dictate
that I should hate you
to make myself feel
strong and safe but
All I see
is you're just like me
We're made of stars
in a shining sea
Under all the muck
of who we're told to be
Don't you see that there’s more?
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh
CHORUS
So let’s all live naked and feel at peace
every line and crease is meaningful
A road map of stories of where we’ve been
Every inch of us is beautiful.
from inside true beauty shines
Like stars in pools of oil in the city
It's messy and wild and it'll blow your mind
cuz beautiful isn't always pretty.
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