Under leaves, under rain,
under the sleeping green...

I came where the daylight thins,
where warm rain clings to the skin,
where every root beneath my feet
moves softly in its sleep

No road remembers coming here,
no stone remembers human hands
Only the vines know where I am,
and they are drawing me in

Hush now, don't wake the branches
Hush now, they know your name

Where the green never ends,
nothing here is lifeless
Every leaf has a little breath,
every stone has an eye

Where the green never ends,
nothing ever leaves us
Fall into the earth,
and the earth will make you holy again

There is a pulse inside the bark,
a quiet fever in the moss
The river turns beneath the roots
like blood beneath the skin

A moth rests upon my open palm
I bow my head and let it speak
Its wings are thin as temple cloth,
its silence older than prayer

Listen, the smallest mouths are singing
Listen, the mud remembers us

Where the green never ends,
nothing here is lifeless
Every leaf has a little breath,
every stone has an eye

Where the green never ends,
nothing ever leaves us
Fall into the earth,
and the earth will make you holy again

Alive...
In the branch
In the bone
In the water
In the worm
Alive...

They told me once that gods live high,
beyond the clouds, beyond the stars
But I have felt one in the rain
I have heard one under my tongue

There is a god inside the fruit,
sleeping sweet beneath its skin
There is a god inside the wound,
waiting for the red to bloom
There is a god inside the breath
that leaves a dying animal
There is a god beneath my feet
There is a god in everything

Do not call this forest empty
Do not call the darkness blind
Do not say the dead are silent
Do not say the roots are still

They are listening
They are listening
They are listening
through a thousand little lives

And when the rain falls through the leaves,
it is not rain
It is their fingers

When the wind moves through the vines,
it is not wind
It is their breath

Nothing here is lifeless
Nothing here is lifeless
Nothing here is lifeless
Nothing...

Where the green never ends,
nothing here is lifeless
Every leaf has a little breath,
every stone has an eye

Where the green never ends,
I can feel them around me
Under skin, under soil,
under every living name

Where the green never ends,
I will kneel and listen
Let the rain enter my mouth
Let the roots remember me

Nothing here is lifeless
Nothing here is lifeless
Nothing here...
is lifeless

The forest is awake
It was awake
before we came
And it will still be awake
when we are gone

Nothing here is lifeless...