(Water)
Sweet River, don’t you cry,
you can’t help that the ocean lost his mind.
I was there when they talked it through,
they took their metal boots and colonized the moon
and she said, “what do I have left to bleed to that isn’t you?”
(Fire)
The fire, the fire took the sun, in a flaming song
and now the winter is gone.
The fire, the fire burned it down (it burned it down)
and now we start from the ground.
(Earth)
Sweet creature from the earth,
your petals bloomed right from the ancient dirt.
How many lives were spent until you emerged
from the earth?
(Air)
The wind taught him how to sing
first howling soft then laughing like a king
the breeze it latched onto the waves
and road itself into the tides of change
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