Music: Hannah Frances Pautler
Lyrics: Hannah Frances
The brilliance of the day waits for you to wake again
Patient in the way I waited for you to love me again
Bronwyn, I lost the song
Gone when I sang
Bronwyn, I lost the way home where I knew
The ground smokes as it burns it hell
Release me from this sweltered land I stand
Holding to the shepherd's hand
The man praised and punished me too
Bronwyn, I lost the song
Gone when I sang
Bronwyn, I lost the way home where I knew
How to love you and he loved too
It was an honor to have loved you
An honor to have been buried in the ruin and held to the end
To have woken inside you, in the hollow hand
Aching and frought in the face of God
I do not flinch at the blinding sight of light
I press to the chest for a breath of life
I kneel down and pray
Bronwyn, I heard the song in the vanishing day
Bronwyn, I laid you down at the mouth of the cave
For no one is mine to hold and no one holds still
And no one is left behind
And no one remains but loss as the centerfold
As the heart swells to loosen the ribs
Loosen the ribs
Loosen the ribs
Loosen the ribs