Take It Like a Man

Like a common loon

I started hearing birds

Birdsong everywhere

A lark in the shower

From the night to the morning after

Warblers and wrens

Hymn at my throat

Shook and quivering

I could have crowed

Whoa, I could have crowed

I was snared by your wrist

I know what the cost is

The octaves of consequence

I know the cost of flight is landing

And I know I can take it like a man

I know I can take it like a man

Falls of fascinations

The sky was leaking light

Like your eyes do

That shipwrecked expression

I need more words for blue

Trilling in the tree

The way I measure you

Fractured thirteenths

That grin that you give

When you want me to quit

Falling further and falcon swift

I know what the cost is

In the octaves of consequence

I know the cost of flight is landing

I know I can take it like a man

I know I can take it like a man

I know I can take it like a man

Falling further and falcon swift

I know what the cost is

In the octaves of consequence

I know the cost of flight is landing

And I know I can take it like a man