From the recording The Crumbs
Lyrics
The Phoenix
The ragged road behind you is filled with grief and pain
All tucked neatly under skin the thin white scar remains
Sit down in this chair girl let me see what I can do
Let’s make something beautiful where hopeless pain once grew
I see you’ve chose The Phoenix with her striking yellow eyes
Wings all blazing scarlett the choice you made was wise
She’s not just some average bird her beauties in disguise
She stands for being born again she’s a symbol of new life
Yeah, This one’s gonna hurt, But it won’t be no worse
Than the pain that’s in your past, We’re gonna set you free at last
No, I won’t ask what happened or how you ever got so low
Me, I’m just an artist what the hell would I even know
Just what you were thinking when you laid razor to your wrist
Breaks my heart to contemplate that a pain that deep exists
The wings here they’re just wide enough to cover the whole length
The jagged path the razor took will lie hid just beneath
Now let me add some color to the feathers in her tail
Finish off her burnt orange breast shade her beak as well
Yeah, This one’s gonna hurt, But it won’t be no worse
Than the pain that’s in your past, We’re gonna set you free at last
That about does it friend my work on you is through
You don’t owe me nothing it's the least that I can do
So rise up from the ashes embrace all that’s true
Your broken wings are mended now, darlin you’re brand new
You’re brand new