Body Love, Pt. 2-Mary Lambert

[00:04.98]I know I am because I said I am [00:08.19]I know I am because I said I am [00:11.65]I know I am because I said I am [00:16.29] [00:17.86]My body is home my body is home [00:23.10] [00:25.47]I know I am because I said I am [00:28.83]I know I am because I said I am [00:32.22]I know I am because I said I am [00:36.81] [00:37.43]So try this take your hands over your bumpy lovebody naked [00:41.38] [00:42.26]And remember the first time you touched someone [00:44.35]With the sole purpose of learning all of them [00:46.51] [00:47.68]Touched them because the light was pretty on them [00:49.85] [00:50.42]And the dust in the sunlight danced the way your heart did [00:53.12] [00:53.64]Touch yourself with a purpose [00:55.21] [00:55.82]Your body is the most beautiful royal [00:57.95] [00:58.90]Fathers and uncles are not claiming your knife anymore [01:02.76]Are not your razor no put the sharpness back [01:05.28] [01:05.83]Lay your hands flat and feel the surface of scarred skin [01:08.79] [01:09.54]I once touched a tree with charred limbs [01:11.74] [01:12.26]The stump was still breathing [01:13.74]But the tops were just ashy remains [01:15.76]I wonder what it's like to come back from that [01:18.20]Because sometimes I feel a forest fire erupting from my wrists [01:21.92] [01:22.50]And the smoke signals sent out are the most beautiful things [01:25.34]I've ever seen [01:26.34] [01:30.50]Love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet [01:33.30]And brother arm wrapping shoulders [01:35.23]And remember this is important [01:37.21] [01:38.25]You are worth more than who you **** [01:39.56] [01:40.10]You are worth more than a waistline [01:41.46] [01:42.26]You are worth more than beer bottles [01:43.67]Displayed like a drunken artifact [01:45.23] [01:45.78]You are worth more than any naked body [01:47.67]Could proclaim in the shadows [01:49.23]More than a man's whim or your father's mistake [01:51.80]You are no less valuable as a size sixteen than a size four [01:56.07]You are no less valuable as a thirty two A [01:58.87]Than a thirty six C [02:00.54]Your ***iness is defined by concentric circles within your wood [02:05.57] [02:06.24]It is wisdom [02:07.43]You are a goddamn tree stump with leaves sprouting out [02:11.74] [02:13.76]Reborn