She's the mother who gave us life,
A mother savage and ruthless,
I learned her ways of life,
Draw her advices.
And I'm blending ashes with sand,
Blood and bones with their dust.
Dragging this owl's nest to the flames
To cage up the moment when
the soul shatters in frames.
Hold your breath,
When the smoke roots in your eyes.
Minutes will slide on ourselves,
When time runs out of matter.
The dove unites with the snake.
Now you can see everything.
You shall listen to ancients
whispers of the trees,
their voices in the wind.
They know everything.
I'm begging you to eat up my soul
and learn from my mistakes.
Change your direction
Just like the river alters its way.
Like leaves on the trees
You will be born again.
After the snow melt its way from your soul,
Stand on the top of the world
And watch your brothers kill each other.
Empty cages and wasted breath.
close your eyes and open your mind.
Like a hawk you shall open your wings,
open them wide, and deliver your scars,
Cause their weight's like stones in my heart.
Wrest a feather and let it fly in the wind
Follow the course of the moon
in the sky that's blue
and come back to me.
Draw the borders of what
your new world's gonna be.
I will always stand by you,
Lost like a feather in the wind,
Sunk in an ocean of feelings
That I carry with me
In the words that I sing.
I'm begging you to eat up my soul
and learn from my mistakes.
Change your direction
Just like the river alters its way.
Like leaves on the trees
You will be born again.
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