Lioness Lyrics

When I was with you we were an estuary/
I don't know if i come from the river or the sea/
All i know is you are both my opposite and my reflection/
And where we meet, all salt and mouth and convergence. we were the meeting point of a mountain and a valley/
From a distance it is clear that we are inverted forms of one another/should our mountain crumble it would fill the valley to our brim/
Creating flatland where there was once chaos/
But until that beautiful collapse we wonder where you begin and i end. we were two bodies/
Running out of room in this world/
We carved space in ourselves for the other to borrow. for the other to burrow/
I wake up sometimes with ghost traces of your lips on my bone/

And my arms holding your phantom frame as you drift away. we were roots and soil/the splendor of a tide pool/
We were giants. but for now we can't swallow the things that separate us. lioness please grab me again by the scruff of my neck/
And lick the wounds i've made trying to taste my own blood.