[Verse 1]
You walk in
And every locked gate in me
Remembers it was built
To open
Your laugh
Cracks through my ribcage walls
Dust falls
Old prayers wake
And listen
[Pre-Chorus]
I’m a drought-struck field
All thistle and thorn
You’re a storm on the border
Heavy with more than rain
[Chorus]
I want your wild seed in my orchard
Roots tangled deep in the dark of my loam
Let your harvest crawl under my skin
Make a forest of my hollow bones
Fill the cellar of my body with your thunder
Let the branches of us break
Then grow
I want every empty room in me to echo
With the footsteps of the lives we’ll sow
[Verse 2]
My mouth
Is a chapel
Candles shaking
Every time your name
Catches on my tongue
My hips
Two unlocked doors at midnight
Hinges humming
For your weight
[Pre-Chorus]
Lay your shadow down
Across this trembling ground
I’ll answer every question
With an opening
[Chorus]
I want your wild seed in my orchard
Roots tangled deep in the dark of my loam
Let your harvest crawl under my skin
Make a forest of my hollow bones
Fill the cellar of my body with your thunder
Let the branches of us break
Then grow
I want every empty room in me to echo
With the footsteps of the lives we’ll sow
[Bridge]
Come be the winter that swells me
Till my seams can’t lie flat anymore (oh)
Be the pressure in my rivers
The reason they claw at the shore
Plant your storms in my silence
Let them sleep
Let them turn
Let them rise
Till my belly is a lantern in the night
Swinging low with new moons inside
[Chorus]
I want your wild seed in my orchard
Roots tangled deep in the dark of my loam
Let your harvest crawl under my skin
Make a forest of my hollow bones
Fill the cellar of my body with your thunder
Let the branches of us break
Then grow
I want every empty room in me to echo
With the footsteps of the lives we’ll sow
[Outro]
Stay
Till the soil of us settles
Till the quiet grows crowded
Till my body says your name
In another
Smaller voice