Respiration (sing me red)

America sighs and pushes me further

Down artery lines to fingers and limbs

I tumble around this interstate bloodstream

I’m head over heart, I’m drowning again

I pack up my songs, I drag them behind me

I whisper them down ’til I’m empty again

Then she pulls me home; her rhythm, it guides me

I swim through the veins that lead me back in

So sing me home, (bring me back to the heart)

I’m losing breath. (give me rest)

Blue and cold, (pull me out of the dark)

Sing me red. (sing me red)

I bounce off the walls, we try to remember

The dance we once knew, the ebb and the flow

But I am a ghost, a wandering shadow

I’m painful to hold, but please don’t let go

Sing me home, (bring me back to the heart)

I’m losing breath. (give me rest)

Blue and cold, (pull me out of the dark)

Sing me red. (sing me red)

America sighs

And pushes me further…

Sing me home, (bring me back to the heart)

I’m losing breath. (give me rest)

Blue and cold, (pull me out of the dark)

Sing me red. (sing me red)