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Hymn to Wisdom

from Seed by Lizzy Shell

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Wisdom is a mother, pain’s a kind of prayer
I try but I can't seem to make myself not care
When I reach for comfort, my hands find mostly air
If patience is a virtue, my dreams are hard to bear.

Wisdom is a teacher, lessons learned are hard
Ambition rouses gently, leaves it's calling card
Oh let my heart be mercy, oh let my hands be scarred
If patience is a virtue, I'll resurrect my guard

Wisdom is a blessing, thinking is a curse
I can't make you better by making myself worse
I can't love him if I can't forgive him first
If patience is a virtue, she's lightning in reverse

Wisdom is the soil of all I'd like to grow
Nature can't be trusted except to ebb and flow
And everything that comes inevitably goes
If patience is a virtue, she'll green the winter snows

Wisdom stands a sentry to keep what's gone before
Lays a nest of olive branches down beside hell's door
The hope of every widow hobo reject saint and whore
If patience is a virtue, please send a little more

Wisdom is a lover, the only one I've known
I never met a child both without a throwing stone
I've need of both my hands now, so mine have all been thrown
If patience is a virtue, I'm building her a throne

Wisdom lays a fetter, hardship winds a chain
Love demands a dying, prayer's a kind of pain
Sunshine she will find me waiting in the rain
If patience is a virtue, if see can turn to grain,
if waves can carve a cliffside, if songs can keep me sane
If every loss is harbinger of deeper greater gain,
then everything's redemption and nothing is in vain.

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from Seed, released January 20, 2017

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