"maddy's song" lyrics

Strawberry flowers
She shows her every morning
After hours
Tumbling through the green and white
And soon to be red
Her jaw was made wrong
Her mother's hands are more than strong
A little pressure here and there
And now it's back where it belongs
Under the shadow
Reaching beyond the mountain
Rainier than one that hid the pain
Of doing what must be done
Her flowers thrown and
Her mother's work had just begun
Her pirouette, her stutter step
Up to the setting sun
And there she goes
She's just putting little secrets in the ground
As her heart is
Cradled in the silence of the sound
As if love could
Ever be contained within a word
And you know there's
Nothing wrong with playing in the dirt:
Make a hole where nothing can possibly grow

Down in the valley
Where we had lost the plot of Earth
The river ran its own collapse
To share a hold on what it's worth
The heart was made wrong
The neighbors sing an evil song
And gentle hands will cut his hair
And keep her safe where she belongs
Beneath the shadows
Rooted inside her children now
It's not enough to still be strong
She'll help you figure
How your heart can hold the hatred
How not to let the evil out
How pressure turns it to a pearl
That breeds the shadow of a doubt
Yeah, I know that the plan is
"Take the pills and calm it down"
But the silence opened up
I went searching for the sound
Of your laughter
That's the sound she makes when she gets hurt
A pearl of rice and salt
Can reach a heart beyond the words
In a hole where
Nothing can possibly grow

Hold me close if for only a moment
It'll be over before you know it
Back and forth, the repetitive motion
Meet me there at the end of the ocean

Yeah, life's too long
God