Bone By Bone

(Opening toning) There is a wild one Calling you be name In your most inconvenient moments Trust her whisper can reach Through the walls of your domestic life Arriving in your dreams I commend you for not running at first Wild and naked with desire Out of your life to meet her Tearing at your hair with ecstatic freedom But eventually you will We all secretly long to go howling Or sneaking off into the forest Under the light of the full moon When our family has gone safely to sleep And we are wild with insomnia You cannot get this wrong Because the one stirring the fire inside Casting dreamlike shadows Has been waiting for you a long time Hair By Hair Bone by Bone Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne Arrows Bows Dreams of Crows Wild Woman come home Hair By Hair Bone by Bone Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne Arrows Bows Dreams of Crows Wild Woman come home Wild Woman come home Wild Woman come home Tiny bones Toe bones Femurs and skulls Wish bones Crow bones Cats and bygone bones It's natural to feel your hair suddenly stand up on your thighs As your feet crumble and humble themselves near her fierce fire Heart yearning for your own wildness to return Stories of confession tumbling from your lips I had no choice but to survive I was making safe, longing to belong I abandoned myself I abandoned my dance My voice And finally, my howling heart Hair By Hair Bone by Bone Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne Arrows Bows Dreams of Crows Wild Woman come home Hair By Hair Bone by Bone Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne Arrows Bows Dreams of Crows Wild Woman come home Wild Woman come home Wild Woman come home Now my skin is dry My body aches My mind is like a caged animal Clawing at my skull Dying to escape Please grandmother please Let me sit by your fire I long to run with the wolves again The skin of my cheeks moistened with tears Casting rainbows behind the corners of my eyes Her humming turns towards prayer in forgotten tongues As I watch the piles of bones begin to rattle Skeletons humming along WIth the bones under my own skin She is the conductor The bones the instruments Everyone coming alive in her orchestra Breath to bone She lifts an ivory rib to meet her withered lips Playing it back to life Skin on bone Her breath inviting an imbedded song From the marrow Into the night Please grandmother please Break the cage of my own making Songs pour out as wildfire catches in my blood Her shadow arching back Bending spellbound as she is Remembering me Hair By Hair Bone by Bone Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne Arrows Bows Dreams of Crows Wild Woman come home Hair By Hair Bone by Bone Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne Arrows Bows Dreams of Crows Wild Woman come home Wild Woman come home Wild Woman come home Wild Woman come home