Cedar and Salt

Verse 1

Needles

Shiny sharp and slender

Prick the palm of the porcelain king

Heavy head

Hanging

By a silver thread

Bury the bone

Deep in the wet clay

Where the roots can find the marrow

Life blooms

Greener now

Greener than the grass on the hill

Chorus

Stitch the skin of the earth back together

I will heal you

I will heal you

Bring the spirit home to stay forever

I will heal you

I will heal you

Verse 2

Rattle

Shake the copper coins

Toss the salt over the left side

Black wax

Melting

Down the bedroom door

One little doll

Holding all your sorrow

In a chest of cedar wood

Sweet smoke

Rising

Higher than the hawk in the wind

Chorus

Stitch the skin of the earth back together

I will heal you

I will heal you

Bring the spirit home to stay forever

I will heal you

I will heal you

Bridge

Wash the fever

Wash the famine

Wash the fear

Gone with the river

Gone with the rain

Gone with the ritual

I am the priest

I am the doctor

I am the cure

Chorus

Stitch the skin of the earth back together

I will heal you

I will heal you

Bring the spirit home to stay forever

I will heal you

I will heal you

Post-Chorus

Heal you

Heal you

Heal you

Mojo working in the light of day

Heal you

Heal you

Heal you

Take the sickness far away

Outro

The spell is cast

The world is new

I see it

I feel it

I am it