Life has claws
Life has teeth
Life is a conqueror
Life is a thief

Life is blood
Life is joy
Life is wild
Nothing is free

If the Moon were always bright
On the side which faces Earth
It never would cast any light
On the rest of the Universe

But if the Moon should face the Sun
And shine its light back to the void
Then we would only see it when
Its shadow falls upon the world

Patterns in the sand
Patterns in the water
Stars in our eyes
Light of the father

One foot in the water
One foot in the sand
Light of the daughter
Stars in our hand

Some people look for thunderstorms
Some people for sunshine
No matter what you're looking for
Seek and ye shall find

Some people look for aliens
Some people look for God
And even through the deepest storm
Lightning finds its rod

You are beautiful
Just the way you are

You do not need
To gild yourself

You are already
Infinitely
Valuable

Life does not create the threads
It weaves them like a loom
Lightning strikes the fertile Earth
And causes her to bloom
One raindrop falls into the sea
Swells into a monsoon
We rise and ride upon the tide
Still howling at the Moon

Magpie
Chattering
Mimicking
Other birds
Steal their
Shiny
Shiny
Words
Fly away home
Weave them in your own
Glittering and complicated
Nest
Until your
Shiny
Shiny
Nest
Covers the whole world
Make everybody learn
Your
Shiny
Shiny
Stolen
Woven
Words

You shall find if you shall seek
A million different ways to speak
Our tongue is not the only tongue
For we are not the only ones

In love and loss, in fight and flight
A thousand voices fill the sky
Still echoing across the land
I wish that I could understand

Sometimes I wonder about ants
Their tiny little alphabets
The verbal dances of the bees
Six nine and zero, eight and three

I wonder too about the whales
Who roam the ocean without sails
And sing their deep and haunting tunes
A million miles below the Moon

I wish that I could understand
The speech of creatures on the land
They bark and growl, whistle and hiss
What is the meaning of all this?

But we are not the only ones
And ours is not the only Sun
Who do I most wonder about?
One day I hope that we'll find out.

This is why you're not good enough
That's something I've heard people say
I used to get angry or cry
Now I just laugh and walk away

Because I know that same mean voice
Has all those same mean things to say
Even when they are all alone
And there is no one else to hate

The things that people say to others
Are what they say to themselves
The things that people criticize
Are what they hate about themselves

So I walk on because I can
Not everybody has that choice
They'll only hurt me once but they
Can't walk away from their own voice