Motherland

To keep you in my arms is

To keep walking a tight line

I'd love to keep you warm and

I'd love to keep you all mine

But I can't go on from here

I know you didn't know

If taking is all you do then

Nothing could ever grow

Nothing could come to bloom but

Now it's been a while that you're not a child walking in the wild

Of denial with me too

Now I'm awake I'm counting down the days they're numbered

For me to let you go, leave you be, set you down

All on your own cut your cord to my home and wander away

Isn't it a little bit out of my mind to think we could

Go on and on imploding on a marathon of borrowed hope

From who we were back when we got along

When the days could slip away

A sunny haze

A daisy's gaze

In harmony the honey bees would follow me

And you our sweetness permeating

Every mile we laid our eyes upon

Now I'm awake I'm counting down the days they're numbered

For me to let you go, leave you be, set you down

All on your own cut your cord to my home and wander away