Thrive - Valiant Hearts

On beds of roses lies the scent of oblivion

Yet its thorns prick everyone

Oh, little seed what soil did you plant yourself in?

As the rain pitter-patters

It pools and gathers to your roots and to your limbs

We wanted to thrive but now we’re overgrown

Swallowing all our old hopes

Cut us down, we’ll rise again slow

Wilt for me flower

I’ll replant you too From the soil to

The seed, you’ll be nourished endlessly

When the planets all align and the sun is high

You’ll bloom and come into your own

To plant your feet, become unsown

So little sprout don’t go and spread yourself thin

Think of every dirt patch as a new beginning

And every seed as our kin All brothers and sisters from a life below

Where the grass cuts like razors So our spirits must learn to regrow

Wilt for me flower

I’ll replant you too From the soil to

The seed, you’ll be nourished endlessly

When the planets all align and the sun is high

You’ll bloom and come into your own

To plant your feet, become unsown

So you have found a place to bloom

Yet wisteria has taken you It en-wreaths you in its clasp even

Though so much nature has passed

Between its arms I couldn’t help but stay

I’ll stay and…

I’ll tend the garden for her I’ll become the sower

Wilt for me flower

I’ll replant you too From the soil to

The seed, you’ll be nourished endlessly

When the planets all align and the sun is high

You’ll bloom and come into your own

To plant your feet, become unsown

(Oh, the weeds how they grow / in a garden

Begotten by woe / oh Mary, we’ve come unsown)