I’d like to sit across a table

I am willing if you think that you are able

I saw you reaching for the stars

I think I was meant to live on Mars

We see only chaos when we’re blind

Panic, panic, panic tripping up the mind

Focusing on symptoms, ignoring the disease

We could see the forest if it weren't for all the trees

It’s in the rhetoric we speak

The way we take on other’s thoughts and make them our beliefs

We’re getting sick from all this grief

It’s time to dig in, take back that piece they want to keep

Convention is an illness you can catch

I feel like a petunia growing in an onion patch

In the time it takes to pluck me from this earth

I swear, I will be the only one to claim what I am worth

I’m just out there, looking for my kind

Yours can be yours and mine can be mine

It’s not that we’re all so far apart

It's in the same way we all fall apart

It’s in the rhetoric we speak

The way we take on other’s thoughts and make them our beliefs

We’re getting sick from all this grief

It’s time to dig in, take back that piece they want to keep

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Lyrics:

A picture of my dad

looking like me, yeah!

Dust in his boots.

Don't know where he's been.

Weed by the roots.

Gut full of stones.

Keepin my soul

tethered to bones.

Were you made of mountains, daddy

cuz momma, she is mighty.

To love a girl so broken

despite all that is and might be.

I feel crazy at times,

falling apart.

What's in my blood

that makes it so hard.

When you gave up,

I took it to heart.

I come from love

covered in scars.

Up at night, twisting my hair.

Lookin to fight but there ain't nothin there.

Head don't feel right, feet in the air

There is light somewhere.

Were you made of mountains, daddy

cuz momma, she is mighty.

To love a girl so broken

despite all that is and might be.

Were you made of mountains, daddy

cuz momma, she is mighty.

I am your girl so broken

Takin swings at life when it bites me.

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