Song Been Singing Me

I wrote this song the day after my 8th and nearly final surgery of a very long journey of healing. I think the words speak for themselves. As often does the song. But it is about childhood trauma, of overcoming great challenge, of the song of our life ‘singing us’ long before we can hear it. It is about letting go, changing, allowing our identities and experiences to move as do all things and beings in nature.

Song been singing me

since before I knew to sing

the same song

since I was a child

for so long

I couldn’t hear it

I was scared

to even get near it

Let the truth speak

let your body breathe

let yourself change

like autumn trees

Let yourself let go

like the trees go to the ground

like we’ll

go to the ground

and see

everything’s always changing

for the better, for the strong

Bone to flesh

so many scars

but now I know myself

and the life I was given

And I won’t be too scared to sing

I won’t be too scared to accept this dream

of notes changing

and who I shall be

and this man

who knows the name of the wind