[Verse 1]
Left at the marble gate
Name on a weathered slate
Twelve thrones stared straight through me
Like I was smoke in the air
Broken sandals
Shaking hands
Watching them bless other kids
Gold in their blood
Storms in their eyes
I had splinters and silence instead
[Chorus]
I was the kid that no god wanted
Half a prayer
And half of none
So I lay down in the wild dark dirt
Said
“If you want me
Make me one”
And the roots came up
And the stones breathed out
Pulled my heartbeat from the mud
Now I’m Gaia’s unwanted son
And I’ll set their heavens
Set their heavens on fire
[Verse 2]
They called me temple trash
Swept me out with the ash
Fed their war-born favorites
Left me crumbs
Left me last
But the ground heard every word
Every curse I swallowed whole
Vines around my wrists at night
Said
“You’re not weak
You’re just untold”
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
I learned my anger from avalanches
From fault lines grinding bone to sand
I learned my mercy from the moss
Soft on the edges of a killing land
If they are thunder
I am landslide
If they are sky
I am the climb
They built their thrones on her shoulders
Now her spine is mine
[Chorus]