Bowerbird

Look at what love did
Made a bowerbird of me
Heart's a house I want to fit
With shiny things that bring you to the tree
My heart wants to be where your heart lives

"If you lived here you'd be home now,"
Says a highway unriddled with lights, and maybe that's true
Before Adam's ribs were taught to make it
What was love to an acolyte: a word or a tune?

All the miles I've gone, and the road still wove in the darkness
But oh, my stubborn heart drove ahead regardless, regardless

Look at what love did
Made a bowerbird of me
My heart's a house I want to fit
With shiny things that bring you to the tree
My heart wants to be where your heart lives

There's an ache inside my chest where
The muscle has hardened to bone, kept me safe, kept me strong
But what doesn't bend is doomed to shatter
A lesson I learned on the long road home, kept me safe all alone

Oh, I know that I've been hard and I've been artless
And you've stayed soft and you've stood still for me regardless, regardless

Look at what love did
Made a bowerbird of me
My heart's a house I want to fit
With shiny things that bring you to the tree
My heart wants to be where your heart lives

Poured my glass of wine
Looked around this heart of mine
Realized that all my walls were dressed like you

Oh, I break myself into pieces
'Til I'm down to the sum of my parts, then I build me again
If how we're loved is how we're made, well
Then we are made from my head and your heart, not built but woven

And the things I've done I knew were far from harmless
But oh, the stubborn grace of being loved regardless, regardless

Now look at what love did
Made a bowerbird of me
My heart's a house I want to fit
With shiny things that bring you to the tree
My heart wants to be where your heart lives
My heart wants to be where your heart lives
My heart wants to be where your heart lives