when this is just enough for you
but not enough for me
i jumped from the highest cliff
because i knew that i would live
i dust myself off and walk away
taking slow steps to the beat of my song
i am alive and everything is wonderful
breaking apart but blissfully unaware
in my dreams my daughter kept me up all night
asking of adventures from wrinkly old photos
i told her of the day i fell off a cliff to survive
she nodded her head and i knew she was alive
i am pulling the rope with you hanging on
not letting go so the sights can engulf you
if you only had the strength that i once possessed
to reach the top and fill yourself with love
these words do not flow but i do not care
all the rivers do and that is all that matters
taking me whole along for the ride
holding my breath for the entire night through
why am i so bigger than you and why don't you know
i can save you and the burdens you hold
like the tree that has fallen to become my new boat
so cared for and loved to sail me to places unknown
through the storms that i passed with such grace and ease
because the blood on my body kept washing away
two lazy eyes straight ahead for the times that will come
never looking back because it is the past and the done
when my boat finally sank i was carried away
to the golden clouds moving slowly and so far away
i landed back home to realize my hopes were my bones
broken and battered but embracing my home
the truth it was sharp but just what i needed
two hands and two feet and two eyes and two ears
one brain and one mind and all of my heart
to whither away so happy and free
i am so young but the world i long to see
this fate is so confusing but mine at the least
the wind blows one direction but i go the other way
because the heart in my body is all i'll ever need
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