[Verse 1] I used to look up kindly Like the sky might take my side Like every little distant thing Was born to justify But heaven has a habit Of making hunger kneel Then calling it a blessing When the wound learns how to heal I was clover in the gutter Green mouth after rain Low enough for everyone To step on and rename They called it luck, the way I lived Called it soft, the way I stayed But roots remember pressure And sweetness can decay [Pre-Chorus] So I crawled out of the garden With the dirt still in my teeth Took the dark between my fingers And taught it how to breathe No lesson in the petals No mercy in the proof If the sky wants something pretty It can choke on what I grew [Chorus] Black star bloom The clover climbed the night Petal after petal Till it covered every tiny light Black star bloom Bad luck dressed in white That little sparrow had its season Now the sky belongs to spite [Verse 2] Do not ask me for forgiveness Like it’s something I still grow Do not bring your silver weather To a field you left alone I have flowers with no softness I have leaves that learned to bruise I have made a crown of endings And I wear it like the truth Once, I opened both my hands Like a saint in borrowed skin Now every gentle thing I was Has teeth tucked underneath The moon looks smaller from here With my shadow in its mouth I am not the fallen star now I am what fell up and blotted out [Pre-Chorus] So let the branches pray for mercy Let the lanterns lose their nerve Let the pretty little omens Get exactly what they earned No garden keeps my body No cage keeps my name I was buried as a lesson I returned as weatherless flame [Chorus] Black star bloom The clover climbed the night Petal after petal Till it covered every tiny light Black star bloom Bad luck dressed in white That little sparrow had its season Now the sky belongs to spite [Bridge] I am not your villain I am what the story fed I am every sweet thing starving In the place you left for dead I am not your warning I am not your wrong turn home I am the root in the ceiling I am the garden in the bone And I tried, I tried, I tried To leave one star untouched But grief has such a long reach And I have missed too much So forgive me nothing Keep your clean hands clean I have learned the sky is only One more thing that can be green [Final Chorus] Black star bloom The clover climbed the night Petal after petal Till it covered every tiny light Black star bloom Bad luck dressed in white That little sparrow had its season Now the sky belongs to spite Black star bloom No constellation left to read I did not become the darkness I just gave it somewhere to seed [Outro] If you look up and find nothing If the stars refuse to sing Know the clover made it heaven And heaven called me king
