Lashes - Medicine Boy

Tonight my mind is going travelling

Back in time just a couple of years

To a girl with sleeves unravelling

Lightning bolts hanging from ears

Told me she lives in the ashes

Where the mountainside burns slow

And with the flames final lashes

She’d pick up all her things and go

For days on end the fire ravaged

As I lay there in her arms

Dissected secrets of the universe

She told me how to keep from harm

Shed all of your clothes

Step into the water alone

Feel the weight disappear from your bones

Drift above while below

The tide carries you home

So the breath you stubbornly hold

Can finally let go

When the sky finally cracked open

Weeping the wild pyre clean

Sure as the sun sets in mourning

She was nowhere to be seen

If by chance one day you meet her

Know your time it will be brief

Forever echoes in your head now

Of the words she spoke so sweet

Shed all of your clothes

Step into the water alone

Feel the weight disappear from your bones

Drift above while below

The tide carries you home

So the breath you stubbornly hold

Can finally let go