Tui Is a Bird (The Work)

Tui is a bird

Tui is a pepper and a baby

Tui is a baby

She wakes in the night

Decoding the colours of the streetlight

Flooding through the blind

Some days, all I think of is the size of my love

And what that means I could lose

Some days, it's an ocean, get scared I'll get broken

It's one more chance to choose

This love, this love, this hurt

Can you help me do the work?

She's a universe

If I do good things, whatever that means

Will only good things happen to me?

She presses her feet up against my cheek

And it makes me almost start to cry

Some days, all I think of is the size of my love

And what that means I could lose

We fall down and then we get up

And it's one more chance to choose

This love, this love, this hurt

And I do it all for her

She's a universe

And I know I won't be around forever

And I know it's a privilege to survive

I just long to live to have the pleasure

Of seeing lines of age around her eyes

Tui

Tui

Tui

Tui

Tui