Snakelife

[Verse 1]

I used to dream I'd shed my skin

And leave it lying on the ground

Crawl away from where I'd been

A new and wet and gleaming one

But every scar and every bruise

They shine like blue Botswana jewels

What did not kill me fills me

With the power of a thousand suns

[Refrain]

Woo-hoo, ooh-ooh

[Verse 2]

Every wound a rift, a hide

A portal to another time

Time slips and folds and flees and flies

She teaches us we are divine

[Refrain]

Woo-hoo, ooh-ooh

[Bridge]

We travel time back to thе child

Back to that inner garden wild

And further up and furthеr in

To the indigo sky past the red sea cliff

Where our wings unfurl

We fly further still

In and up and up and in

Past the deathless stars

Through the breathless void

[Verse 3]

We burst through our skin

Skins turn to asteroids

Now the bountiful blackness

Weds that pregnant silence

And a song is born

And those cold rocks transform

Into gleaming planets

With purple moons

And rainbow rings gently coiling

Circling, circling

In the gravity of the burning suns

We now embody bright constellations

Bright constellations

Never seen before, a whole universe

A whole blazing force, a whole blazing force

Unstoppable, unstoppable

[Outro]

I used to dream, but now I write

I wield my words like spindles bright

To weave a world where every child

Is safe and loved, is safe and loved

Is safe and loved

And Black is beautiful and good