Songbird

from Opoutere by Buster Caitcheon

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He was water
Fell in love with the ocean
He wanted to feel the oxygen burning in his lungs
and I don’t know what I’ll become
but I know I’m the love

She was fire
Burned him up with emotion, oh did she
He needed the earth just to feel it
underneath his own two feet
He wanna breathe

He sang
I am the love
that the world don’t shine enough of
and you know
I am the poison
that’s cursing in my blood
and it ain’t no crying shame
that the world it knows my name
Like a river running free
or a songbird dressed in flame

I’m on fire
Burn me up with devotion won’t you please
and I’ll never blame the jester for all the dirty tricks she pulled on me

From one soul to another soul
I gotta go and she gotta know
it’s only industry

She sings
I am the love
that the world don’t shine enough of
and she says
I am the poison that’s cursing in my blood
and it ain’t no crying shame
that the world it knows my name
Like a river running free
or a songbird dressed in flame

I am the love, I’m the love, I’m the love
I am the love, I’m the love, I’m the love

I am the love, I’m the love, I’m the love
I am the love, I’m the love, I’m the love

I am the love, I’m the love, I’m the love
I am the love, I’m the love, I’m the love

I am the love, I’m the love, I’m the love
I am the love, I’m the love, I’m the love

Oh I know that I am the love
that this world has so much more than enough of
We’re made of the stuff
And it ain’t no crying shame
that this earth one day will know our names
Like a river running free
or a songbird dressed in flame

Like the river running so free
or a songbird dressed in flame

I am the river running free
and I am the love that will bloom again

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from Opoutere, released October 10, 2019

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