Country Girl

Somedays I wish I were born a tree

Sink my teeth into umber and clay

Grow the only way I know how

Tracing the arc of the sun as it moves through the day

Or maybe I could be a songbird

Singing hymns to a ancient belief

Make a cradle out of sprigs and bark

And the spring wind will carry my melody

But I am just a girl

Floating from place to place

There’s no home where I am found

And no memory of me stays the same

I always change, always change, always change

And the cycle of life always bringeth

A new seedling in my ground

And when I slumber I’ll be forgotten

And forgetting all that forgets me

And it's peacetime in the city

Summer is coming around

It's peacetime in the city

Wartime in my hometown

And I run towards the threshold of existence

Fold myself into the womb from whence I came

Can time fold itself like an orange peel

And it can swallow my pain

I still remember pieces of me

That haunt me in traces in my skin

(can she figure it out

Or will she fail again)

The formulas of my mother

And the dictation by my father

Revolution by grandfather

Ice queen great great grandmother

And the mills and threads they built into the land and the silent anger lives in command

And the folk song I sing is for those with conscience

Mourning is for the bastard who leans on providence