Between Raven and Crow LYRICS Raven met me in the half-light Where the truth don’t wear a name Taught me how to love the darkness Without turning it to shame Said some doors don’t open gently Some you walk through on your own I learned how to hold the silence Like a knife, like a home There’s a knowing in the shadows There’s a cost to what you see I walk with ravens and crows around me Black wings circling my days One drinks deep from the night forever One keeps pulling me back my way I’ve been broken, I’ve been chosen By the dark and by the dawn I walk with ravens and crows around me I was never meant to want just one Crow laughs loud on the wire line Like she knows what I won’t say Keeps me tied to blood and pavement To the price of staying awake Says don’t crown your pain with poetry Don’t make a myth of every scar You still gotta walk among the living You still gotta show them who you are There’s a fire in the speaking There’s a risk in being seen I walk with ravens and crows around me Black wings circling my days One remembers what I’ve buried One won’t let me drift away I’ve been tested, I’ve been tethered To the ground and to the sky I walk with ravens and crows around me Every day, every life Don’t ask me to be pure Don’t ask me to be kind I’ve worn the weight of visions I’ve paid for every sign If you see me standing lonely With feathers in my hair Just know I’ve been listening To what most won’t dare I walk with ravens and crows around me Shadow voice and city cry One calls me down into the mystery One says, girl, you still gotta try I don’t choose between the silence And the sound that saves my soul I walk with ravens and crows around me That’s the only way I know Black wings Morning breath I’m still here I’m still whole
