the family myth

in the family myth

we escape winter

we escape water 

we escape the amnesia of the sea

and somehow there's me

in the family myth

we escape desert 

we escape searchers 

we escape the arbitrary decree 

and somehow there's me

all of this must be true

because somehow there's me

and somehow there's you

in the family myth

we escape cages

we escape rages

we escape the rogues of history 

and somehow there's me

in the family myth

we escape post-war

we escape closed door

we escape the Land of the Free

and somehow there's me

all of this must be true

because somehow there's me

and somehow there's you

in the family myth

we know their order to shoot on sight

we cross the border and move by night

and go on

in the family myth

we cross the water of a rolling sea

and all of us, some of us, one of us

must slip free

and go on

in the family myth

we escape exposure 

we escape erasure

we escape the men who hack the family tree
and somehow there's me

all of this must be true

because somehow there's me

and somehow there's you

accidental woman

[[ we are accidents and constructs with agency -- and the radio is our body ]]

I'm an accidental woman

a woman can come and go

I'm an accidental woman

I am a song on this radio

this is only skin

just another hotel room

flesh is a fashion

you can wear until your doom

or step on out of

and step into something new

we can get out of this

what we put into this

we can get out of this

what we make of this

what we make of this

is how we will be

I'm an accidental woman

I could as easily be the man

just a switch in my making

make a change to that plan

I am my own distraction

I paint my lips on

and put on a smile

when I look in a mirror

I get my kink in

I am my own distraction

see how these clothes hang

from my soft shoulders

just pull on over

and let it sink in

when I check the mirror

I turn my head

I'm an accidental woman

a woman can come and go

I'm an accidental woman

I am a song on this radio

spiral staircase

[[ just another song about love and evolution ]]

how much I love you

first to last

written in my bones

woven in my skin

how much I love you

first to last

first there was flesh

then the flesh became word

and wrote itself

stepping forever

a step at a time

testing each step

up the spiral staircase

once we were fish

you feel it in your womb

swim for its life

stepping forever

a step at a time

testing each step

up the spiral staircase

first there was flesh

then the flash of the fish

leapt on the shore

stepping forever

a step at a time

testing each step

up the spiral staircase

how much I love you

first to last

written in my bones

woven in my skin

how much I love you

first to last

I give you my word