Lyrics - Composed from Seasons

Lyrics - Composed from Seasons

Verse 1

I am autumn's face my hair is a vine going brown my nose is a pear my mouth is a split in the wood where the frost got in

I am composed from what the year gave the spring that broke the ground the summer that burned the autumn that wounded the maples and made them more beautiful

Chorus

We are all migrants through time walking from one season to the next carrying the fruit and the bare branch carrying the plate and the door I am the face the seasons composed and I am still here

Verse 2

The door appeared on a Tuesday behind the refrigerator I didn't ask for it I didn't plan for it I pulled the furniture from the wall the way my mother taught me and there it was - a door to October a door to the field after harvest a door to the orchard where no one was picking the apples and the apples were falling and the apples were sweet

Chorus

[belted, warm] We are all migrants through time walking from one season to the next carrying the fruit and the bare branch carrying the plate and the door I am the face the seasons composed and I am still here

Bridge

[falsetto, intimate] You were in one season I was in another the love was real but the timing was winter and winter is not cruel winter is just honest it shows you the tree without its leaves

Verse 3

[clear, resolved] I eat the last apple soft from sitting sweet from waiting I put the branch on the plate I put the stone on the plate I put the leaf on the plate the plate is a face the face is a season the season is mine

Outro

[softly, fading] Composed from seasons composed from what came through the door composed from what stayed composed from what left I am still here I am still here