DAUGHTER Lyrics

I was born in the archer's moon

I was made by a clinician's hand

My mother and father, they wanted a daughter

They raised her on loveless land

With a song and a steel tongue

And the schoolchildren jeered,

"She's so uglily formed"

I was wicked, but warm

Now I run, and I fear

I can't be alone

With all that I've ever known

So if I roam

Can I come home?

I was birthed in the winter's breath

Where the groundhog saw face and saw fear

Oh, it writhed and it withered for six weeks of winter more

But I got twenty-five years

And now I'm on my own

With all that I've ever known

So when I roam

Can I come home?

And I can't bear a child

That I can't survive

For I can't hold their hand when they leave this strange land

That I leased them when I brought them life

Oh, I'm every ugliness prone

And I've cursed every tempest above

Oh, despite every violence shown

And with every violence known

I still believe in love