Old Souls

Cold smoke
 in our lungs
 and footprints
 in tall grass.
 We're old souls
 in new skin,
 dragged in
 from the cold.
 Fresh tracks
 trace past
 our old ugly bitter ways.
 You finally found all the courage you needed to say.
 We're old souls
 in new skin,
 but far from
 the place you'd thought we'd begin,
 the place that you'd thought I'd give in.
 We're old souls
 in new skin,
 but far from the end
 - just waiting,
 waiting to begin.
 You can rearrange me now.
 Put my feet back on the ground,
 put the blood back in my veins.
 You can rearrange me now.
 Put my feet back on the ground,
 put the blood back in my veins.
 I saw your scared stare
 sinking into me,
 but I was bound by weights so I could not tread
 in a rising sea.
 We're desperate now
 with our latent fears
 rising from the wake.
 You carry me over.
 You carry me through.
 We're old souls in new skin.
 You carry me over.
 You carry me through.
 We're old souls in new skin.
 You carry me over.
 You carry me through.
 We're old souls in new skin.