Mosquitoes

There's a creek I would walk to When my house felt like a locked room Lean on little wooden bridges Watch the eels playing cool I could walk a little further Down the dirt path on the shoulder To the biggest waterfall My city limits could produce Boy, it fell Kept on falling Biting down Carving rock Slow erosion Lay me here on the stone I'm only here to feed mosquitoes Only skin, only blood A little less now than there was In January '23 The creek became a raging sea A great torrential flood that ripped The bridges from the banks The soft slope of the valley Ravaged, cracked, and wounded badly Fallen giants breathing heavily Across the severed track They fell (fell, fell, fell) Stayed fallen (fallen) Roots exposed, reaching high Something's growing Lay me here by the bones I'm only here to feed mosquitoes Only skin, only blood A little less now than there was A little less now than there was I still go, it's been a year now Past the chain-link fence that keeps out With the bridges all still blown out You can't amble anymore Overgrown, abandoned I take off my shoes to cross And find the current has forgotten How it felt to break the world And if I fall (fall, fall, fall) I'll fall in (fall in) Soaking wet Ruined pride Tui laughing So leave me here, let me go I'm only here to feed mosquitoes Only skin, only blood A little less now than there was Just leave me here on my own I only breathe to feed the ego Only flesh, only blood I'm letting go of what I'm not A little less now than there was A little less now than there was