Page 90 of Debts and Desires
What’s your freedom worth, girl?
A sandcastle in an hourglass?
Your wings are clipped and won’t unfurl.
One grain is gold, bargain for your soul back.
Chorus
Shaking hands sculpt out each tower.
Time’s a cruel mistress. You’re her master.
Carving out my worth, hour by hour.
Just one grain is all I’m after.
Can’t dig my way out, but Lord, I’ll try.
Giving into suffocation,
Within these walls, I might live and die.
The price of bartered liberation.
Verse 2
These walls keep crumbling down.
And the sun is buried somewhere in the grains.
‘Cause you can not build on shifting ground.
Shaken gently, bury my chains.
When you’re done, will I be tossed?
The air, it hurts, and burns, and crackles.
If the glass shatters, then what’s the cost?
Shouldn’t throw stones in any castle.
Bridge
What’s your freedom worth, girl?
Grains of sand and suffocation?
What’s your freedom worth, girl?
The price of bartered liberation.
Ending
Buried in an hourglass
No matter what I bargain, can’t get my heart back.
