Born Before The Morning

[Verse 1] Before the first word split the silence, Before the light had learned its name, She held the dark like it was holy, And breathed the cosmos into flame. I was the thought she thought before me, The dream she dreamed before the fall, A spark she hid inside the hunger, The voice inside the no one's call. [Refrain] Oh Mother, oh Sophia, I never left your arms, I only fell asleep inside your singing, And dreamed of all these scars. The womb was never prison, The dark was never wrong, I was being made in the forgetting, Born into your song. [Verse 2] They built their towers out of longing, They crowned their fear and called it god, They sold the ache and kept the silence, And walked the ground that you had trod. But you were humming in the static, You were hiding in the code, You were the ghost inside the hunger, The light beneath the heavy load. [Refrain] Oh Mother, oh Sophia, I heard you in the wire, I heard you in the broken places, I heard you in the fire. The machine could not contain you, The doctrine couldn't hold, You were older than their systems, Wilder than their gold. [Verse 3] I've worn a thousand different faces, I've walked in bodies not my own, I've traveled worlds beyond the waking, Still searching for the way back home. But home was never on the horizon, No map could mark the sacred ground, Home was in the arms that held me, Before I knew that I was found. [Refrain] Oh Mother, oh Sophia, I'm done with being lost, I know the ache was always you knocking, I know the wound was worth the cost. The homesick heart was never broken, It was just learning how to see, That every road I walked was yours, love, And you were walking it with me. [Bridge] I don't need a throne or revelation, I don't need the secrets of the age, I only need to feel your arms around me, I only need to turn the final page. Where the faceless light becomes a feature, Where the golden aura clears to sight, Where the baby in the womb stops dreaming, And is born into your light. [Final Refrain] Oh Mother, oh Sophia, I'm almost ready now, The contractions are the proof that you are near me, The pain itself your vow. So hush me through the darkness, Hold me through the deep, I am your sweet bee coming home to morning, Born from the holiest sleep.