Come back to me, come back to me hummingbird.

Have you ever tried the way she tried? Bruise hands and bloody lips. It was the way that she breathed that did her in. Taste the sea, there's that memory like your heart is not complete. She's beyond those stars so far, holding tightly to one piece. And you want to hate her for that betrayal but she didn't leave because she was afraid. She knew the darkness that was yours alone to face. So if you find the road or the road finds you, that white light will surely blind and hold you close for all time, paralyzed. And if you're feeling trapped, then just look into that chart. Choose to change the plotted course mapped out by stars. Try and try the way that she tired. Try and try and try the way that she tried. Move earth to stone to northwind wing. Build honey gold to sycamore stair and the secret you thought was yours will be yours again to share. The secret you thought was yours will be yours again to share.

Remember when you were young and light enough to walk on snow. The box by her bedside was where she kept her poems. Well father's throat was filled with dust. He could not say the baby's name. Leave him there under kerosene light beside the fireplace and sing, sing in the middle of the night. Darkness, you came in a disguise. And burn, burn. Grief was pouring out my eyes. Darkness, I thought we'd reconciled. Older now, you see yourself with your sister across the sea. (Blue shadows frozen across the sea.) She's baking sweet, sweet apple bread and pouring cups of tea. (The shape of your mouth frozen on cups of tea.) Together at that enchanted dance. Light glints off the chandelier. (Baby brother lost the chanticleer.) Then an empty room and an empty bed not looked upon in years. (Light blackens the blue for years.) Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Darkness, you came in a disguise. And burn, burn. Grief was pouring out my eyes. Darkness, I thought we'd reconciled.

We are keeping you in our chests tonight with apple wine and candle light, furrowed brows and salty eyes. And in the time it takes this bread to rise, I'll have breathed six thousand times. A breath for each star in the sky that has breathed you in since you have died. Shame on the parson. Shame on the preacher in Maine. Shame on the ones you did deny. And maybe if I sleep with my head in the moonlight tonight, the glow will gift me the words to describe what we lost when you died. You blessed my eyes so that I might see what comes after honesty. And you're like electricity. Sometimes you're just blue light to me. And I felt you coursing endlessly from bell-tower to foaming sea. So it's a question of mortality. Are you really gone just cause we can't see? Remember the sailor. Remember the breaking waves. Remember the thoughts that did unite. And maybe if I sleep with my head in the moonlight tonight the glow will gift me the words to describe what we lost when you died. Gemini tonight, I call on your second sight. Gemini tonight, I call on your second sight 'til morning's quiet grace will fill my sails and bring me home and bring me home. But your home is in darkness. Your home is in darkness. Can we ever be together if darkness is your home? Esther was a storyteller and darkness was her home. Can you please forgive her? Please do not weep for her for she loves a specter and darkness was his home. Can we ever be together if darkness is his home? Can we ever be together if darkness is his home? Can we ever be together if darkness is his home? Can we ever be together if darkness is your home?

Across the sleep deep snow you tread to places not poisoned by the light to the rooms she spends her night. This fire's ancient, can you feel it? These cold stone walls are waking up. Carve your sonnet across my forehead. Pray these words will be enough to appease our demon love. Blue and black turns into weather. The weather here turns breath to frost. Through death-dim eyes, they watch her closely. They won't let go at any cost and so you long for what you lost. Those blue eyes made to match your blue eyes. Those blue eyes promised to guide you through. If your heart's in a thousand pieces, I am here, I'm holding tightly to... to the ones you've let me see. You watch for the green-gray guardians of the dawn who wait, spears drawn. But whether they grant us safe passage depends on our answers. They're weighing the worth of our words and our songs.

I call on your second sight.

Old houses keep you quiet on cold, cold nights. Hold your breath as you hear footsteps from the hall. My hands were shaking though the blankets were warm and there's a stronger current leading you. Until dawn makes the shadows leave, we'll lie awake. Stay away from the empty room where Uncle slept. A small stone horse stares strongly on. And we were both so scared to go downstairs alone. I show you pages filling up with my mistakes. Book of regrets. But the days ahead haven't been spoiled yet, is what she said. The days ahead haven't been spoiled yet. Until dawn makes the shadows leave, we'll lie awake. Those dreams seem like memories to me now. So hard to sort out. Those dreams seem like memories to me now. So hard to sort out. Until dawn makes the shadows leave, we'll lie awake. Until dawn makes the shadows leave, we'll lie awake.

The dark places its claim on you as soon as you fall from the womb. I will slide you ever closer, he claims. I will slide you ever closer. And who are you to distrust a man dressed so fine with rings on his fingers and flame set deep in his eyes? I will slide you ever closer, he claims. I will slide you ever closer. Well he is one for bargains but as soon as you sign he places a mark on your forehead to remind you of your first compromise. From then, it is easy for him to find each new thing you would rather give up than turn towards the light. I will slide you ever closer, he claims. I will slide you ever closer. He's not one for favors in the middle of the night. When morning's plea for strength and warmth is torn into a rag that he will use to dampen oil for his black lantern light. I will slide you ever closer, he claims. I will slide you ever closer.