Flicker - Ayla Nereo

Run for that open door Go, what are you waiting for? You got your lights turned up I got my mind made up I know there's no room for us to grow Can we cut the cord before we lose it all And love is a flame You know when it flickers If you're holding a gun Will you pull the trigger? The pain in my blood Makes it flow thicker Why forget When time is a killer? Time, the killer Time, the killer Time, the killer You own the best part of me You show when no one else will see And now I feel so stuck Gotta keep my head up And don't take me down that road Love is a flame You know when it flickers If you're holding a gun Will you pull the trigger? The pain in my blood Makes it flow thicker Why forget When time is a killer? Time, the killer Time, the killer Time, the killer Time, the killer Love is a flame You know when it flickers If you're holding a gun Will you pull the trigger? The pain, my blood Makes it flow thicker Why try to forget When time is a killer? Time, the killer

Across valleys folding, across waters frozen Across the time between my dawn and your setting sun These are stories blowin', these words tender showin' How can I touch the shape of wing-binding's falling 'way Oh tongue, set you free, and oh mind let it be Oh land, teach me how to lay in the storming wind Across hearts aching, across skies a-breaking Across the time between our suns I'm lost in your stars By the light of the dark moon Just be as you are, just do as you do By grace and devotion By lettin go, lettin go overything By breath as it takes you By the light of the dark moon I'm lost in your stars I'm lost in your stars I'm lost in your stars Two-toned, moment wide, breathing, stay with it I aim for the place between all longing and letting be Speaking honeywine, making wishes star-side These are the arrows in the battle of becoming Make me a warrior hummingbird, disarming You be a compass to guide this flight Take me surrendered, fill me to spilling over The roots of this endless sky I'm lost in your stars By the light of the dark moon Just be as you are, just do as you do By grace and devotion By lettin go, lettin go overything By breath as it takes you By the light of the dark moon I'm lost in your stars... I'm lost in your stars I'm lost in your stars By the light of the dark moon Just be as you are, just do as you do By grace and devotion By lettin go, lettin go overything By breath as it takes you By the light of the dark moon I'm lost in your stars... I'm lost in your stars I'm lost in your stars I'm lost in your stars I'm lost in your stars I'm lost in your stars I'm lost in your stars

Pine, I am calling to you Aspen, I am singing to you Redwood, hear this song Birch-bark, weeping willow And Dogwood, blooming moonlight Cedar, let it fall, fall away Oak, you bore my body Bay, I bade you open these vessels... To receive your whispers Tender breath-keepers Givers of life to these lungs May I open my ears and Surrender What can you tell me How can I tend you How can I tend to the ones Who pour life through these lungs... Care for these rivers going dry Bone and sorrow held as Pain, drought of feeling, yet the Rain can give us freedom, forest Rain, but if we cut them, it goes Away, help us Open these vessels... To receive your whispers Tender breath-keepers Givers of life to these lungs May I open my ears and Surrender What can you tell me How can I tend you How can I tend to the ones Who pour life through these lungs... "We, for every one of us you've uprooted You can soothe it by planting another Of the same as the kind you've uprooted Every ending a beginning if you choose it... You can soothe it... If you choose it..."

Baby this place is crazy We gotta hold on, we gotta stand up tall And when the fire it tries to change us we let it in Quicksand becoming fountain, becoming open, becoming joy and pain Into the ocean, this holy moment you dive in But take a look at me now I am a shadow dancing with light I am a freedom falling like rain I am the love you gave I'm comin' on down the bend, ain't nothin gonna stop me now Whenever I call your name you come in like a waterfall And I'm singin' you through the night, on every breath you've given I'm ridin' on waves of time, makin' my way, makin' my way... Error becoming pious, becoming righteous, becoming fallen grace Into this garden we're cast as children to begin Listen: the winds are changing, The water's rising, the compass points us home And are we movin', and are we choosin' to stay awake But take a look at me now I am a wild wind in the night I am a letting go of the reigns I am the love you gave I'm comin' on down the bend, ain't nothin gonna stop me now Whenever I call your name you come in like a waterfall And I'm singin' you through the night, on every breath you've given I'm ridin' on waves of time, makin' my way, makin' my way...

Hum Inside my heart a little while Come closer with the honey of your song Your dance is a code is a pathway to what's given I am learning how to listen Hum Inside my heart a little while From you comes the honey of my song Tender to the tendrils blooming color taste and longing for You who kiss the petals of my reach Our minds send us farther than our legs can carry us But your flight weaves the membrance of our step So we give our voices So we give our voices to the ones who've left us So we give our voices To the ones who cry in silence So we give our voices So we give our voices to the ones who's speech is Runnin' under soil beneath... So we give our voices So we give our voices to the ones who've left us So we give our voices To the ones who cry in silence So we give our voices So we give our voices to the ones who's speech is Runnin' under soil beneath... Subtle in... Subtle as your flutter beat lung beat run beat Hum... Hum Inside my heart a little while