Lyrics: Leah Chisholm/Richard Beynon/Yona Gold
Music: Leah Chisholm/Richard Beynon/Yona Gold
My daughter is up and dancing
Feeling the pull of the tide
Whirling out onto the dance floor
Caught up in this wild ride
She wiggles and she sizzles
In a hair-tossed twirl of delight
She is her own megawatt beacon
Tearing up the darkness into light
Just like a woman electric
Here nobody feels any pain
All the joy of all the music
All the wonder of a bloodstain
We say yes
All day it threatened to rain
And my tongue stayed stuck
You painted hope while you were underground
You painted a ladder
I wrote down secrets
I imagine them feeling my aches
It is so much to want something only for yourself
Soon we'll tell them why I have been hiding for four years
Soon it will be just me and my longing again
I will remember whose child I really am
And what I am sovereign to
It will be time to begin
And I will be free
Nature bestows on all of us
A master internal clock
A sleek and slippery timepiece
With no way to make it stop
Fundamental to a woman's life
The convergence of music and blood
And here it all came together
In a fantastical flash flood