Waking Andreas - Jesca Hoop

I took your name

I took the key and my side of the bed

Break the earth open again

Rich and red, full of seed

Baring the hands of a betrayal forgotten

Pulling the thread from the first time we kiss

Through the meat of our tongue

And the drop of blood falling

From the first bitter word

And the thread that returned

To I took your name

You stole my heart to the white cliffs and grey

Elephant seals, Monterey

Oak and Bay, silver pups

Waking Andreas and tempting the Richter scales

Follow the thread from our vows

Up the cold stone tower

My mother’s voice calling for the girl that I was

To find her way home

What is real?

How would I know?

He is lifeless

He is dead stone

He is cypress

He is white bone

I rose with the waves

Fell with the water

Sick with thunder

Anchorless, tossed and torn

Us under the clutch of your hand

Pulled me safe to land

Where I took your name