If you think about forever Until your life is over Well then what was all that doing In the middle supposed to mean 'Cause there's nothing like the future To weigh a body down It just slips into the past Until the darkness comes around And in the spring When you hear the leaves Digging tunnels through the trees You will know that there is life That doesn't breathe And I am not alone And when the water washes over The last hole in your head Oh, will you think of all the other ways That this life could have gone Or will you marvel at the way That it has been I am the blood In the veins of the sky Before it rains I am the lightning I will strike you From your feet I am the long warm embrace Of an old familiar face I am the light inside of Everything you need I am the mother I am the son I am the calm collected one I am the anguish That will bring you to your knees And in the dark, you will see That you look just like me We are nothing that we want And all we need