[Intro] (acoustic, sparse) [Verse 1] (softly) Cape May at dawn, the sand like cold ash Apo Bening says the first morning is for the feet There are two roads, padaba, only two And a third road is the same one you repeat [Pre-Chorus] (building) Complete it, live three hundred years, unclaimed by any room But the salt half cannot love and the wing half cannot stay Or refuse it, stay one body, stay mortal, keep the man Die when a person dies. I know the price. I will pay. [Chorus] (full band, gospel lift, belted) Salt and wing, salt and wing I am refusing the long, cold thing I want the bond, I want the man, I want you The line is a river now. I choose it. It runs true. [Verse 2] (softly) My mother kneels and takes my feet in her hands The way her mother pressed her arches in seventy-one Whatever you choose, I am here for the next one, anak I was not there before. I am now. It is done. [Bridge] (drop to near a cappella, then build) A hundred years from now a child of my name Will hear it told in kitchens, some wrong, some right She was the first to die when she did not have to The right voice calls it what it is, in the light [Chorus] (huge) Salt and wing, salt and wing I bind the wing, I keep the ring I want the bond, I want the man, I want you The line is a river now, and rivers choose where they run through [Outro] (warm, resolving) Now we eat. Luway-luway. Now we eat. [End]
