Not You
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Lyrics
Spoken Intro
(She was a World-Soul)
Three hundred people stood behind me
Every one of them a reason
I could not let the sky take them
Verse 1
I closed my eyes and reached down deep
Past Stillwater past the quiet lake
Into the cracked cup resting on my ribs
Where I keep the dark things buried
I pulled the trauma from my bones
My skin split open with light
Warm glow curdled into crimson
Thick and boiling like oil poured slow
Pre-Chorus
Thorns burst from my forearms
Thorns burst from my spine
The frost beneath my boots turned white
Steam rose off the concrete
Chorus
Not you
Not you
The hand came down and stopped the fire
Not you
Not you
A voice without a sound said not you
Post-Chorus
Not you not you
Not you not you
Verse 2
A grip clamped on my shoulder
Cold as glacial ice in winter
Violet veins throbbed against my skin
An iron vise that would not move
I gasped and my aura stuttered
Red thorns flickered into smoke
I turned my head to see who held me
Morwen stood there stripped of everything
Pre-Chorus
Her costume gone her spine a beam
Her shoulders level chin held high
Golden light poured through her cracks
Her body coming all apart
Chorus
Not you
Not you
She squeezed my shoulder one fierce time
Not you
Not you
Her bloody lips shaped two syllables
Not you
Post-Chorus
Not you not you
Not you not you
Bridge
Not a speech not a command
Just a look a mother's hand
Saying I will go instead
Saying I will go instead
Chorus
Not you
Not you
I wanted dawn for all of them
Not you
Not you
She shook her head and held me still
Not you
Post-Chorus
Not you not you
Not you not you
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