Freebird II - Parquet Courts

I’ve learned how not to miss the age of tenderness

That I am so lucky to have seen once

And now that I’ve become older I’ve how to brush over

My history and how it’s sequenced

When I think about you I see a person who

Hasn’t existed for a long time

Before you started using, before I starting choosing

To do the same thing for the same reasons

The first name I called you is not a name at all

More of a duty than a function

Often an execution, often with deep confusion of

'Who was I when that name was just mine?'

Like a serpent charmer negotiating harm

I live with a basket of your silence

And as the years record I can feel it growing board

But I keep the top on in the meantime

When I pass my reflection there isn’t any question of

Where the person in it came from

When I catch myself thinking and hear the voice that speaks inside

I know where I got my brain from

Every step I’ve strayed from and followed

Led me to the same location

Every act I’ve forsake and borrowed

A delivery to now

And I’ve never wondered how I came to be

I feel free like you promised I’d be