Calm My Soul

I’ve seen too much this year

I long for it to pass

The type of memories

That turn a heart to glass

My mother named me well

My father worked the land

In dust my ribs were formed

And I’ll return again

Calm my soul

We are burning up the earth

It’s body and it’s breath

We hurt the ones we love

And we wound what we protect, God

Calm my soul

Calm my soul

Who bleeds more

Calm my soul

I have walked behind for too long

Now I will lead the way

I have strayed

I have strayed

Strayed away

If you’ve loved in haste

Thinking only of the cost

Every river leads to land

Every lover to a cross

Your mind and heart at war

And they thrash inside your lips

Like an arrow passing through

Your tongue can kill or it can kiss

Calm your soul

Calm your soul

There is hope

Calm your soul