[Verse 1 — hypnotic bass] I stitched green feathers into scales To make you wings when all else failed I gave you flight, you wanted more You found one feather on the floor [Pre-Chorus — rising harmonies] This skin has grown too tight to breathe But little hearts are underneath [Chorus — spiraling melody] Oh, Kukulkan, teach me to shed The life that lives inside my head I want to leave this shape behind And find the sky I never tried But under every coil I've made Are fragile things that need the shade I cannot tear the world apart Without destroying someone's heart (Someone's heart, someone's heart) [Verse 2 — shifting meter] You ask for wind without the storm I curl myself into your form [Bridge — ethereal] The feathers fall, the scales remain I dream of flying without chains Must growing mean the world will break? How much of me can duty take? [Outro — soft falsetto] A second skin beneath the first A second life that wants the earth
