In the dark of all things wordless
With bleeding eyes and mouth
A song of undying worship
Before the truth
And so I lay me down
In the flowers and the thorns
With a heart of cuts and scratches
Still beating like a song
And it runs out through your hands
And the numbness leaves you
And here where you have found it
You'll never let it go
As the sleep clears from your head
In its rawness and its sting
Knowing nothing but the present
And what's there before you
Weather soaked and torn
One flower at a time
To make a ragged bouquet
From the living and the blind
There are things of such unbeauty
That are calling for their own
Bearing all that nature threw them
To the love they call their lives
And it runs out through your hands
And the numbness leaves you
And here where you have found it
You'll never let it go
As the sleep clears from your head
In its rawness and its sting
Knowing nothing but the present
And what's there before your eyes
And the darkness still spins rainbows
Cutting channels through the soil
In a place of dazzling shadows
Full of green and growing things