By providence you found me, by providence you let me go.

By providence you found me, by providence you let me go.

I was city sick. Concrete calloused, unrooted, detached. I was menthol, gamsol, fume choked.

I was city sick. Concrete calloused, unrooted, detached. I was menthol, gamsol, fume choked.

And you, you were green, glowing green, breathing green.

And you, you were green, glowing green, breathing green.

Fireflies that first night, my own welcoming party. I never slept so soundly.

Fireflies that first night, my own welcoming party. I never slept so soundly.

Sometimes I wonder if you were waiting for me to find you - the breath of the breeze smelled like home.

Sometimes I wonder if you were waiting for me to find you - the breath of the breeze smelled like home.

Though I signed the papers, and filed the taxes, and mowed the lawn - I belonged to you.

Though I signed the papers, and filed the taxes, and mowed the lawn - I belonged to you.

The river came, as it had before, and swallowed you whole. I never slept so unsoundly.

The river came, as it had before, and swallowed you whole. I never slept so unsoundly.

By providence you found me, by providence you let me go.

By providence you found me, by providence you let me go.

Keening from the highest hill, from where we signed papers and severed ties, the "you look well" and "I miss you" souring the pit of my stomach,

Keening from the highest hill, from where we signed papers and severed ties, the "you look well" and "I miss you" souring the pit of my stomach,

my thunderous cry split me in two

my thunderous cry split me in two

I opened my mouth and my soul and let out a roar filled with the grief of

I opened my mouth and my soul and let out a roar filled with the grief of

Eight hundred and thirty nine days.

Eight hundred and thirty nine days.

I was homesick. Hurricane haunted. Uprooted. Displaced.

I was homesick. Hurricane haunted. Uprooted. Displaced.

And you, you were green, growing green, living green.

And you, you were green, growing green, living green.

By providence you found me, by Providence you let me go.

By providence you found me, by Providence you let me go.

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