Blood & Fortune Lyrics

Home's not a place you reside

Home is a space you provide, for faces to occupy

Of common eyes, faces of values

Home is when safety surrounds you

For those bound by blood

For those who found common ground on mounds of mud

The sound of us is comfort and closeness

We each play a note in a humbling opus

Undercurrent throws of weeping mother

In these convoluted times we need each other

You smother those stars of my insignificance

Subtracted the in from my difference

aboard the brittle gift of a sinking ship

I find solace in togetherness in this abyss

Sink or swim, eventually we're drowning

I focus on the levity your presence is allowing

My wife is a rock from which hope formed

My family a lighthouse in cold storms

My friends are the motions of boats oars

My kids tell a purpose of folklore

Please define me by my people, that I hold dear

So I can climb inside that easel, and disappear

Please define me by my people, that I endear

So I can dive inside a freefall, and feel no fear

Too often I exist as a ghost or an omen

You gift the restraint to bestow me the moment

Throwing broken pieces in a fire pit

One day these memories, may keep horizons lit

fill these skies, spit flickers of our unity

You've seen my worst with a view of translucency

Saw my ruins as rows of seeds

I'm so thankful for the stories that you've wrote for me

I hope we see our twilight's dimming beams

That shine upon everything you've given me

A sacred synergy of blood and fortune

Each of us have changed in the maim of war wounds

I will pour you onto every blank page

Of a life story that is character based

When the magic fades and the weather clears

You is how they'll know I was ever here

My wife is a rock from which hope formed

My family a lighthouse in cold storms

My friends are the motion of boats oars

My kids tell a purpose of folklore

Please define me by my people, that I hold dear

So I can climb inside that easel, and disappear

Please define me by my people, that I endear

So I can dive inside a freefall, and feel no fear