JAMES - Bubbles lyrics

rate me

Take an axe to your past, to your family tree

Carve a face from the wood, an effegy

Make wings from the leaves, hide from the bark

Kindling for the hair, rose for his heart

Someone to draw you right

Someone to catch the light

Draw the blues from the skies into his eyes

Carve the lines on his face, a map of the race

Juice from the root of a beet for his skin

Set the tides of the blood with the pulse of the drum

Someone to draw you right

Someone to catch the light

I'm alive (x2)

Wash the boy in the stream so tenderly

Press his lips to your lips, give him your breath

He awakes with the weight of the vision he holds

Sees the rent in time through which he must fold

Someone to draw you right

Someone to catch the light

I'm alive (x7)

Stir the heart with a drum

Kiss smoke in his mouth

Show him signs of a life

That's a whole lot better

And he calls down the rain

Tornadoes and hurricanes

There's a world in his veins

That's a whole lot better

Alive, I'm alive (x5)

Fingers raised to the sky, a snake for a spine

He's drunk on a life that's a whole lot better

Teach him songs of the bees, double helix and honeycomb

Play him wind through the leaves

That's a whole lot better

Alive, I'm alive (x5)