[Verse 1 — delicate guitar] My roots drink darkness under stone My branches lift the heavens home I shade the earth through every year You curse the one leaf disappearing [Pre-Chorus — ascending harmony] No one sees beneath the ground Where all my thirsty roots are found [Chorus — soaring] I am the hollow ceiba tree Holding worlds that won't hold me Every branch another promise Every root another chain I'd pull myself out of the heavens Let the soil become brand new But birds have built their homes upon me And their eggs would shatter too (Shatter too, shatter too) [Verse 2 — syncopated bass] I send my water to your flowers Dream of rain that's only ours [Bridge — exposed vocals] Could I grow another limb That bends toward something I still want? Must every leaf belong to them? Must every root forget the sun? [Outro — layered harmony] The sky stays blue, the branches sway My roots keep asking for a day
