When I was a girl, I went walking in the woods
Dancing with my sisters and the salamanders
Skinning both my knees and singing through the pain
I called it paradise, yeah, I gave it that name
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
When I fell in love, it was to the drumming of the ocean
Yeah, you broke my heart wide open there
And our love became me combing your thin hair
And taking such good care of the body you had left
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
Coming home from work to these children that we made
And I'm singing them your song everyday
Nearly lost my own voice just listening for your ghost
Now I know what I love, it's what I'm going to miss the most
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
And I thought this cave of pain was gonna swallow me whole
As the storm came threatening
And I had to learn to live on the sliver of light from the cloud's silver lining
But I'm giving more than I'm getting just like the moss under my feet
And I'm thinking that maybe I can shine just like it but
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
Holding this sweet babe with my story in his bones
And he's swallowing the light and bubbling back to me
Oh, I thought it was the story, oh, I thought it was the song
Now I know it's the singing, it keeps saving me
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song
We are bones, blood, saltwater, and song