Lyrics

I am not disappearing

VERSE 1
We tried to name
what was wrong with me
To reframe
The me and the we
the strangest truth
It was always the same
There was nothing
In side
I needed to hide

CHORUS
My transition
My new mission
Has not been fully told
Because the story isn’t finished
Even when I get old
It has only just begun
I can not out run
I am not disappearing
I am becoming
a new Son
A new dad
Someone to be had

VERSE 2
We reach for metaphors —
Larva to moth
Moth to flame
But that story ends in ash
Not all the same
Butterfly effect
Something small
No defect
No more shame
I am the first wave
before the tsunami
I am the first stone
before the mountain slide
I glide like a bird
Made of origami
Soaring from deep in side
No need to hide

CHORUS
My transition
My new mission
Has not been fully told
Because the story isn’t finished
Even when I get old
It has only just begun
I can not out run
I am not disappearing
I am becoming
a new Son
A new dad
Someone to be had

VERSE 3
Erosion doesn’t erase
It reveals
A trace
Fire doesn’t end
It learns how to
bend
It prepares the next one
The ground does not vanish
It re arranges its future
I am not banished

CHORUS
My transition
My new mission
Has not been fully told
Because the story isn’t finished
Even when I get old
It has only just begun
I can not out run
I am not disappearing
I am becoming
a new Son
A new dad
Someone to be had

[Verse 4]
Is my life a volcano
Bent on destruction
Or a new plan
One of re construction
Is the mountain withering away
Or re shaping the way
Is a dead forest really gone
Or a place for new life
For the next dawn.

CHORUS
My transition
My new mission
Has not been fully told
Because the story isn’t finished
Even when I get old
It has only just begun
I can not out run
I am not disappearing
I am becoming
a new Son
A new dad
Someone to be had