Last night I painted a purple tree on my bedroom wall
I woke up this morning in a pile of leaves
The colour of a million different faces
Thinking of that hand that planted the seed
Of the family tree that grew us all
Will one day fall back to the ground
I was listening to my heart pound
Knowing with every single beat
That a thousand other hearts were falling asleep forever
On a day they never thought they would
And I know there are tribes of aborigines
That decide how and when they′ll die
After a hundred years or so
They walk into the desert alone
And within two minutes soar into a death
As beautiful as their life
Will probably never be enlightened enough to decide how I want to die
I decided how I want to live
What kind of song I want to sing
Looking at my days like they′re a cup
Calling them half empty or half full
When they've always been enough
If I stop thinking so much
And start drinking them up
Until I get so drunk and high on my days
I′ll be walking up to strangers and saying things like
"Hey, I know Jesus was born in a manger
To watch the earth′s horizon
Give birth to true rising sun of God
And I can't stop singing hallelujah"
Can you believe we′re here?
Can you believe there are gods somewhere praying to us?
I want to be that nut on a bus
You might be an opera singer some day
And how are you gonna hit the high notes?"
I wanna live like those high notes
That rise from the throats of old ladies
When they see little babies
I wanna start somebody′s heart like that
In all the sidewalk cracks
With someone you thought you hated
And now look at what that love has created
Like it's a little league game
Just wanna watch some little girl
Watch her father cheer so hard
I wanna split some woman's
Wake her with her own sunrise
There′s reason to be hoping
"There are stingers in my heart
But I'm sure that I′m a queen"
Until every angry car horn
Every angry war cry reborn
A song of let there be life
When she whispered your name
Poems that will make you go home
Taller and taller and taller
Put a couple more there won't you?
Cause I′m growing up here"
No longer looking at my days