Bone by Bone

(Opening toning)

There is a wild one
Calling you be name
In your most inconvenient moments
Trust her whisper can reach
Through the walls of your domestic life
Arriving in your dreams

I commend you for not running at first
Wild and naked with desire
Out of your life to meet her
Tearing at your hair with ecstatic freedom

But eventually you will
We all secretly long to go howling
Or sneaking off into the forest
Under the light of the full moon
When our family has gone safely to sleep
And we are wild with insomnia

You cannot get this wrong
Because the one stirring the fire inside
Casting dreamlike shadows
Has been waiting for you a long time

Hair By Hair
Bone by Bone
Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne
Arrows Bows
Dreams of Crows
Wild Woman come home

Hair By Hair
Bone by Bone
Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne
Arrows Bows
Dreams of Crows
Wild Woman come home
Wild Woman come home
Wild Woman come home

Tiny bones
Toe bones
Femurs and skulls
Wish bones
Crow bones
Cats and bygone bones

It's natural to feel your hair suddenly stand up on your thighs
As your feet crumble and humble themselves near her fierce fire

Heart yearning for your own wildness to return
Stories of confession tumbling from your lips
I had no choice but to survive
I was making safe, longing to belong
I abandoned myself
I abandoned my dance
My voice
And finally, my howling heart

Hair By Hair
Bone by Bone
Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne
Arrows Bows
Dreams of Crows
Wild Woman come home

Hair By Hair
Bone by Bone
Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne
Arrows Bows
Dreams of Crows
Wild Woman come home
Wild Woman come home
Wild Woman come home

Now my skin is dry
My body aches
My mind is like a caged animal
Clawing at my skull
Dying to escape

Please grandmother please
Let me sit by your fire
I long to run with the wolves again

The skin of my cheeks moistened with tears
Casting rainbows behind the corners of my eyes
Her humming turns towards prayer in forgotten tongues
As I watch the piles of bones begin to rattle
Skeletons humming along
WIth the bones under my own skin

She is the conductor
The bones the instruments
Everyone coming alive in her orchestra

Breath to bone
She lifts an ivory rib to meet her withered lips
Playing it back to life

Skin on bone
Her breath inviting an imbedded song
From the marrow
Into the night

Please grandmother please
Break the cage of my own making

Songs pour out as wildfire catches in my blood
Her shadow arching back
Bending spellbound as she is Remembering me

Hair By Hair
Bone by Bone
Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne
Arrows Bows
Dreams of Crows
Wild Woman come home

Hair By Hair
Bone by Bone
Wild Woman Reclaim Your Throne
Arrows Bows
Dreams of Crows
Wild Woman come home
Wild Woman come home
Wild Woman come home

Wild Woman come home