Bones into Ashes, Blood into Steam

Well it starts with a mirror and ends in a song
Of a weary falsetto that's drifting alongside
The lips of a woman, or rather her shell
While her friends and her family are wishing her well

'Cause as far as they know, she's a face and a name
And her thoughts and ideas just part of the game
Where she sifts through the colors, forgetting the light
That must shine through the prism to bring them to life

So I look to my God and all I see is the sky
While the world starts to blur and the cars speed by
I don't know where my home is, don't know where to begin
So I'll lay back down in my bed again

Never learned to be grateful for what I can't change
Till I heard my good mother calling out my old name
I was dreamin' of colors that swirled 'round my head
All the while I should have been working instead

"So I hold out my hands to a shivering tree
And I beckon the fruit that's entitled to me
'Cause I worked from the soil, and I planted your seed
Now you owe me a lifetime of meeting my needs"

Then I look to my God and all I see is the sky
While the world starts to blur and the cars speed by
I don't know where my home is, don't know where to begin
So I'll lay back down in my bed again

Now my guilt manifests like an ugly disease
Turning bones into ashes and blood into steam
No I can't shake it off, and I can't play it cool
All it takes is for me to admit I'm a fool

I was dancin' with demons and kissing the men
In love with asterisk that clings to the sin
Though the passions were fierce and the dissonance sweet,
I'll take it all by the horns and throw it down at your feet

Then I look the sky and all I see is my God
And the world just seems so much more clear than I thought
I'll shake the dust from my feathers and leaves from my hide
And I'll run and I'll run and I'll run to that light

I once stood on a rooftop and looked out for miles
At a city I've lived in since I was a child
And at once I could feel the pulse beating with mine
All those streets and my veins, they had all intertwined

And her body was mine and my body was hers,
And I laughed as my sleeping soul started to stir
No, I don't know what hit me, don't know if I ever will
But I'm raising my glass and I'm getting my fill!

Then I look to the sky and all I see is my God
And the world just seems so much more clear than I thought
I'll shake the dust from my feathers and the leaves from my hide
And I'll run and I'll run and I'll run to that light