Hold Your Breath Lyrics - The Acorn

There's a river that parts the valley of this town, following the road up to your father's farm 

Your rosy lungs will empty on the day that you were born 

And no one thought you'd make it past the morning 

Hold... 

Your brother said your mother was a firefly you buried in the earth 

And every night the firelight warms the tender bits of skin beneath your shirt 

The climbing constellations move in semitones 

And sit behind the county line in the melody of gravitation 

Hold... 

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Calling on the colours of the globe 

Sleep amongst the mango trees and poisoned oaks 

A flood for every footprint, for every mile we forgot 

Though your hands were little, we always? 

Hold your breath... 

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The sanctity of soil 

Wandering roots and living oils 

Unions underground 

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All around, mountains like diaphragms 

The rhythms of a landscape that is breathing 

Hold your breath...