Wisteria-Hands Like Houses

[00:17.55]This is where we fall [00:20.39]Sleepers scattered in the soil [00:23.06]A finger deep, dragged through the ground [00:25.75]A blessed thought in harrowed halls [00:28.86]We could think of nothing else [00:31.49]But what our patch of earth contained [00:34.00]Reminded by our dirt-stained clothes [00:36.93]Of planted possibility [00:40.02]In tender ground, as bare as birth [00:45.91]A shoot emerged from beneath the earth [00:51.50]Mary, Mary, tell me how your garden grows [00:56.17]Tell me what it takes to come alive, to see what you have sown [01:01.71]Cuz I've grown into the ground and there are branches in my bones [01:07.19]I am overgrown [01:12.93]I am overgrown [01:30.73]Between two branches, a rope and tire we cast [01:36.01]Between two worlds, each one higher than the last [01:41.60]I chose the air, chose higher still and left an Eden, found [01:46.95]But in abandon, lost my grip, and shattered, chose the ground [01:53.18]In unkept chaos, as bare as birth [01:58.64]A garden, grey, of tangled earth [02:03.30]Mary, Mary, tell me how your garden grows [02:07.60]Tell me what it takes to come alive, to see what you have sown [02:13.08]Cuz I've grown into the ground and there are branches in my bones [02:19.15]I am overgrown [02:26.11]I've been lying here too long [02:31.44]The branches pushing me apart where weakness showed [02:36.82]But then September swept the overcast aside [02:41.46]Dusted off the winter's curse, and she cut me through like knives [02:59.47]She whistled proudly her season's song [03:04.95]And showed me that I was alive all along [03:09.51]Mary, Mary, tell me how your garden grows [03:13.87]Tell me what it takes to come alive, to see what you have sown [03:19.63]Cuz I've grown into the ground and there are branches in my bones [03:24.94]I am overgrown [03:30.77]I am overgrown