Yesterday, I walked outside
Out into a sea of dust, arid and dry
And so hot and so unbelievably radiant
And I watched myself go under
And then I saw this woman
But with a smile like a river
And I took my hand and I put it in hers
"You don't need a spirit guide
Do something that scares you
Do something that scares you
And I washed my hands in the
Rushing from the mountain like
I put my whole body into the water
Like I was transforming, a chrysalis
The red earth on my tongue
And I felt like I was just a girl,
Seventeen, looking for something,
And bursting and beautiful
With the reins held tight
And I felt like I was just
Taking off, ready for joy,
on a bird's wing, fragile
Do something that scares you
Do something that scares you
Do something that makes you feel
Do something that makes you feel
And I stood on the edge of that cliff
And I realized I was all alone
And I could suddenly feel
And I could feel rain on my skin,
And I could feel all the pain
All the sweat and all the untold
Like rain flowering in me so strong
Like jasmine, and releasing me
And I put up my body arms
And I cried with the rain
And I felt myself becoming myself
Like I was freed from the beliefs that
I'd been handed as a child
Like I could see the world from above
And I took off that red ribbon
And I buried it under the yellow earth,
Burying it deeper and deeper
Into the heat, into the core
I did something that scares me
I did something that scares me
I did something that makes me feel
I did something that makes me feel
I did something that makes me feel
