Every single bee

Track 4 from the Yev Kassem album We Swam Out to Sea. 

 

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EVERY SINGLE BEE (D G D G B E, capo 4)

I can see the sunshine shining through the roof. I can feel it breaking, aching like a tooth. I can see the rain descending from the clouds. I can see the morning come and turning back around.

I can feel the wind blow, blowing us away. I can see the grass grow stronger every blade. I can see the bees kissing flowers in the yard. Buzzing down the street and it doesn’t seem so hard.

Where can you go when you only see the dark? When you wake up in the night and you don’t know where you are. When you fumble for the light but you don’t know where you left it.

I can hear the clock tick, ticking from the first. I can see the full moon just about to burst.  Looking out the window, watch the sky go dark. I can feel the turning, burning in our hearts.

What is the use in understanding why? When the morning comes along just as surely as the night. And I’d rather stay in bed but I’m up before the sun is.

The jacaranda leaves are falling to the ground. Crying purple tears but they never make a sound. Nests of baby magpies, empty like our hearts. Fending for themselves, man, they grow up so fast.

And I can see the path of the sun in the sky. Every twist and turn as it hurtles into night. I can see the path of you and me. And every single bee.