Your eyes are more than tiny mirrors
All we see
You learn to swim
And I begin to understand

Someone is waiting
Right below your feet
To wrap up a band back around your feet
And tell you not to repeat
A single word, a single word

They're more than sounds that we repeat
Cut my skin and burrow in
Like tiny birds

I'm just trying to fall asleep there
Where my body was ugly and bare
And all you do is stare
A single word, a single word

Where the snow has fallen
I'm wondering where you are now
And I have got my spine
I have got my words

And if you are with somebody now
Are they blind to the sound
Of your heart beating?
A single word, a single word
A single word, a single word