The Hollow Ceiba

[Verse 1 — delicate guitar]
My roots drink darkness under stone
My branches lift the heavens home
I shade the earth through every year
You curse the one leaf disappearing

[Pre-Chorus — ascending harmony]
No one sees beneath the ground
Where all my thirsty roots are found

[Chorus — soaring]
I am the hollow ceiba tree
Holding worlds that won't hold me
Every branch another promise
Every root another chain
I'd pull myself out of the heavens
Let the soil become brand new
But birds have built their homes upon me
And their eggs would shatter too
(Shatter too, shatter too)

[Verse 2 — syncopated bass]
I send my water to your flowers
Dream of rain that's only ours

[Bridge — exposed vocals]
Could I grow another limb
That bends toward something I still want?
Must every leaf belong to them?
Must every root forget the sun?

[Outro — layered harmony]
The sky stays blue, the branches sway
My roots keep asking for a day