Golden Cut

I watched your faith ground down to paste and powder

Treading water in a flat sea wasting power

Can you learn to be still and live to swim again another day

I'll be your body of water

I'm the lagoon the ocean didn't swallow

Recessive gene, swimming upstream

Dangerously trying to break free

Grounded here by love and fear

In a time well beyond the time to leave

You are your mother's mother's mother's spiraling golden cut

So don't cheat yourself out of a good life

Swan down feather on duckweed

Possums up our fig tree

I'll carry them with me when I see myself out

My blood is full of stories in a language I don't know

I should've learned it long ago

Should've known the voices I'd follow

Recessive gene, swimming upstream

Dangerously trying to break free

Grounded here by love and fear

In a time well beyond the time to leave

You are your mother's mother's mother's spiraling golden cut

So don't cheat yourself out of a good life

Recessive gene, swimming upstream

Trying to get out of here

My blood is full of stories in a language I should know

Should've learned it long ago

I am my mother's mother's mother's mother's gold

Life it always finds a way

Love is written in your veins

Life it always finds a way

Life is written in you