I’d be okay if I never had to speak again
I’d be okay if the only way I could share
Was singing a song to capture the heart of it
I’d be okay if I never spoke again 

Nourishment is a rare bird in these times
Wings out wide nuzzled into what’s good
Held like a warm bath surrender
This is what this life is about
I’m no longer tempted by shoulds

You warm me from the inside out
From the outside in

I belong to this body. I belong to delight
The laundry list of what I have to do
Just a little less vital to my time
Than taking hot clothes out the dryer
And laying under them, too

You warm me from the inside out
From the outside in

Rest with me
Undress ideas on how we’re supposed to be 
In a world that's full of uncertainty
Let’s indulge in a little jubilee

You warm me from the inside out
From the outside in

There’s a penny in the dryer rattling
Hard metal on metal
It pulls my attention erratically 
And I know it’ll go until I shape things to move differently

The energy it takes to figure out how it's gonna go
A million ways
Spare your mind the chase
Do what there is to do and be done with it

Rumination and crawling skin
My misguided helpers
As useful as breaking a sweat 
Trying to catch the wind

The energy it takes to figure out how it's gonna go
A million ways
Spare your mind the chase
Do what there is to do and be done with it

Once upon a time they sat across the table 
Giddy smiles, twinkled eyes
Unable to contain their love
Years unwind them now stiff in silence

Dripping wax on candlesticks
They bought on their first trip away
She bites her lip, takes a breath
And waits for him to swallow
To tell him she's ready for divorce

I can't imagine what you face cuz I've only had a taste
This one's for the heartbreak
The pain when the heart ain't where the home is
Begging for a new way when home is a four letter word

The kids at school know their name and whisper pointing
They know themself by puzzled looks and endless searching 
For how to be in a body they were born to
They change their name, tape their breasts and muster courage
Over again to tell each friend who they’re becoming
Even though they've been it at along

I can't imagine what you face cuz I've only had a taste
This one's for the heartbreak the pain
When the heart ain't where the home is
Begging for a new way when home is a four letter word

We are tender human beings
being human different ways
We can love by listening
We can learn by listening

The cold of new Winter is shocking and clean
The fog in the doug firs, a moonlit sheen
I’ve got myself bundled remembering the breathe

The turn of the seasons so old and so new 
It cycles within me like flowers between blooms
I forget every year that the birds go south too

Still every year
It’s like I’m getting to know you for the first time

Your lower lip is thick
With all the kisses that you've ever given before me
I get the gift of where you've been before me
How love has shaped you
How you shape your lips to meet mine

I want to be a student of you
And you don't need the right answers
But I've got questions for lifetimes
Maybe a lifetime with you

Your hands are big with all you've held before me
And all you've touched, all you've received before me
Complete with scars, I've got a few too
Let's mend what isn't fully healed together

I want to be a student of you
And you don't need the right answers
But I've got questions for lifetimes
Maybe this lifetime with you

I don't want the time to tell 
What makes this worthwhile
Whether tomorrow or in withered grey
I'm in it for the ride

I want to be a student of you
And you don't need the right answers
But I've got questions for lifetimes
Maybe a lifetime with you

When the acorn falls from the oak
A severance from hanging ease
Hits the ground hard and broken
With the Earth tomorrow's tree

There's power in falling apart
Let your tears pour wild and free
You're alive to the calling in your heart
You're watering your seeds

Inching forward to chrysalis 
Where everything evolves
Vibrant wings and graceful bliss
Come after the dissolve

There's power in falling apart
Let your tears pour wild and free
You're alive to the calling in your heart
You're watering your seeds

Like an October tree
Parts of you are ripe, parts of you are dying
In Spring new life will pull from the decay
Fruit will ripen from the rain

There's power in falling apart
Let your tears pour wild and free
You're alive to the calling in your heart
You're watering your seeds

We held our smiles behind shifty eyes
To let you ride out your fairy tale
What kind of friend would impose their piece of mind
And disrupt by lifting up your veil?

All in good time you’ll see what’s clear
It’s okay you didn’t see it then
Hindsight is 2020 every time
It’s okay it’s a reminder
We really need each other
To help us see our blind spots

On second thought ours is the kind of love
Where we say the hard thing and tell it like it is
You’d do the same for me
And I’d love you more than I ever did
What more is friendship for than this? 

All in good time you’ll see what’s clear
It’s okay you didn’t see it then
Hindsight is 2020 every time
It’s okay it’s a reminder
We really need each other
To help us see our blind spots

I sing this song for me sometimes
You’re not the only one
Who learns by making a mistake or two

It’s okay you didn’t see it then
Hindsight is 2020 every time
It’s okay it’s a reminder
We really need each other
To help us see our blind spots

There’s riots in the streets
People standing up for people
The ones with darker skin are getting hurt directly
But no one’s out of harm when only certain people bleed

They bought and sold the forest
Greed can turn a person against their very breath
In lines and boxes, screens and toxins
We bury our trash in our mother
There’s wild land here
We’ll sit in the old growth and listen

How do I explain to you?

Piles of food are thrown away
All the while empty bodies hunger
Good people slave just to get by
But there’s no scarcity
Just an unfit myth of separation

I hope that it will change before you get here

Oh child it can be bleak out there
But there’s enough of us who never give up on care
That won’t change when you get here

Oh by the firelight
I’ll tell you stories of a different time

There's nothing that's ever been 
Or will ever be wrong with you
Sometimes we just get off track
It's human to do things 
Where we don't recognize ourselves
What matters is how we get back
To who we really are

I have a radical dream
That every human being
Is exactly how they're supposed to be

There's nothing to prove
Just find your own groove 
Enjoy yourself
Cuz you've got a lot to give
It's easy to see where we're lacking and judge ourselves
Do you see how far you've come?
That's who you you really are

I have a radical dream
That every human being
Is exactly how they're supposed to be

I know you're hungry to be better
Acknowledge yourself right here exactly as you are
There's nothing you need to grasp
Or achieve to belong or believe
You already have exactly what you need

I have a radical dream
That every human being
Is exactly how they're supposed to be

There’s nothing that’s ever been or will ever be wrong