*NEW lyrics – from the upcoming album “Everything’s T R U E” as Jessica Wolfbird (releasing Fall 2023)*

Traveling Walls

You want there to be a goal, you child of wisdom
You want there to be a path to a place in the sky
You’re hoping there’s a way to avoid all danger
Like a light on for houseboats passing by

You saw her as a place that you could turn and run to
You saw him as a god not as a man.
You saw them with their wisdom and their want to save you
You saw them on high when they were just holding your hand.

But what do I know about quests and castles?
What do I know about snakes in the closet?
What do I know about spells and wishes
What do I know about people who’ll hurt you
What do I know about paths unfolding?
What do I know about anything good?
What do I know about your winding journey
About could and would and should

But if the moments before are like tunnels of truth
Are the moments before like God in His youth
No need to explore – they led me to here
Why waste another year in tracing footsteps

There’s plenty of doors and plenty of truths and there’s plenty of places to learn from youth
There’s plenty of water and there’s plenty of air and there are plenty of ways to get from here to there.

And “there” is a word you don’t miss at all.
Being HERE in your castle with its beautiful walls
And “there” is a place you don’t need to go
Put your castle on crutches and watch it hobbling slowly

With every new step there’s a weight that’s lonely
It’s heavy like ice in the core of your being
But you’ve held on too long to the people so willing to be like your armor when you have your own shield
And you don’t need their shields and you don’t need their gods ’cause they won’t be there at the end of your journey

We all go home to our own ancient books
We all go home with ourselves in the mirror
And eyes are like stars that point to what’s true
So I am wanting to spend time with you.

And everything’s fine
And everything’s fine
And I’m gonna love you without letting you save me
And everything’s fine
And everything’s true
And I’m gonna love you without losing my journey
And everything’s fine
And everything’s good
And you have a purpose that’s born in your insides
And everything’s fine
And everything’s true
And time pulls my purpose right out of my being
And codes are exposed
And DNA’s real
And we can’t deny the ways that we feel
When we feel like a compass that’s set on the truth
(and fear is a part)
(but it’s snakes in the corner)

If you only knew what’s inside of you
The things I imagined would hurt your memory
If you only knew what you already grew
If you knew where you’re going, could you see it too?

I see it like ice on a frozen pond
It’s rippling somehow and reflecting the sunlight
The light is its purpose, it knows it has won
As it starts melting, all the puddles are rising
And it sees with clarity the faintest of suns
And it sees without fear the dawn is coming
It knows it can help…it knows its the one
But it makes no excuses for the ways it’s been frozen.

So I don’t want to own you, I want to be friends
I want to travel alongside your body
I understand where you begin and I end
But that doesn’t mean I won’t love your energy.

So here I am
Morning
With this hand in tow
Deep in my heart
Staring out the window
Trees without leaves and branches exposed
More beautiful than we can imagine.

~

 

Full of Beauty by Jessica Wolfbird

How do we grow up
When we’re all born to come down?
How do we live with our feet
on the ground?

How do we just get by
When the world is full of beauty?
And how do we not stop and
smell the flowers or watch the birds

Take flight
Take flight
Take flight

How do we grow old
When we’re so wanting to stay young?
And how do we learn to pay
for things we want 
when all we want really is to

Take flight
Take flight
Take flight

All I want is to
Take flight
Take flight
Take flight

 

Boat, Plane, Bear (i.e. Traveling Song) by Jessica Wolfbird

You and me traveled by boat
Didn’t have a hard time
Staying afloat
Because we could rhyme things
That other people
Couldn’t see
And we weren’t afraid
We weren’t afraid

You and me
Traveled by plane
We didn’t have a hard time
Staying in air
Because we could rhyme things
That people
Didn’t know 
Could go together
Cause we took the time
To learn which things could rhyme

Oh oh oh…

You and me
Traveled by bear
With BARELY 🙂 a care 
in how we would climb things
or how we’d get there
Because we could see
The patterns
Because we could see
Because we could see
Because we could see
The marks on the tree
Clawing up things that came before
We could see
We could see
How things could be.

~

 

SONGS as Jessica in The Rainbow

People Tangled in the World (from Catalysts)

All the world in tiny people
People tangled in the world
In a constant state of memory
What we know is what we’ve heard
In my father
In my mother
In my memory of what’s to come
In my sorrow
In my future
You are always never done

All the world in tiny people
People tangled in the world
In a cloudless flow of meaning
What we want is too absurd

And you take a breath
You move in close
I feel your heat near my shoulder
You take a breath
You move away
Cause new things feel scary

All the world in tiny people
People tangled in the world.

Reborn (from Make-Believe) 

Keep goin, I heard you say
Keep goin, you say
I don’t want to get in your way

You’re angry, that I know
You’re angry deep in your bones
And I’ll tell you it will all be okay
but it won’t

Cause you have to decide if you
want to really live this time
And all the light in your eyes could go out
at any time
at any time

You’re hungry to be heard
You realize it’s all the same around the world
And I’m asking you to just think it through
why don’t you want to?

You’re dying to be born
and I tell you it’s not what you think at all
You see me like a flood
that lives in your blood

but I’ll tell you it’s all just a way to be
moving along like
tides move and like sand’s never really reborn
just blows around
you just blow around
you just go around
it’s not any kind of solution at all
you just blow around and blow around …

you’ll still be small

Rabbit hole (from Tiny Traumas III)

Here in this room
I feel this tomb
closing in around me
like a drug
I didn’t mean to take
didn’t mean to make this plan
and sell my time to you

But there’s this notion that
more is better
and all these words you use that
tell you this is true
are wrapped around your skin

Why you’re goin down this rabbit hole
I don’t know
I don’t know right now
Why you want to see the bottom for yourself
I don’t know
if you thought it through well enough

But there’s some great mistake
we’re all selling
and I don’t want to be a part of this
right now
but time sweeps you onward
and I hope I’m strong enough
to find my way out

History Lesson (from Catalysts, and JiTR’s Greatest Hits)

The story writes itself
The song begins its end
The people didn’t pay the fine
The price was much too great to mend

This fiction isn’t fact
The story is aloof
The needles in your tiny haystack
Didn’t think you’d find the truth

The people were enraged
The sonic boom of youth
Is wasted on this generation
Wasted on a new sensation
And people are at war
And war is still alive
And it’s passing on through generations
Still we learn and then we die

And humans can never learn
Cause humans multiply.

And it’s too late to learn
To pass it on before we die
It’s too late

 

+secret song (from Make-Believe)

Time is waiting for your cue
When you’re ready it will know what to do
In the meantime it will be your friend
It will hold you til the very end

If you want it to
If you want it to
If you want it to

When you’re ready I will be around
Here to guide you with that same old sound
I have always wanted to be this
I wasn’t ready

My fingertips can’t hold this light for you
You will have to feel it too
In the meantime I will be a friend to you.

 

FOR LYRICS to MANY OTHER ALBUMS/ SONGS / RELEASES, including almost all lyrics to the 12 Albums in 12 Months Challenge of 2018, visit jessicaintherainbow.bandcamp.com ,- most albums contain lyrics if you click on song titles while listening 🙂  or visit this YouTube PLAYLIST for all 365 videos from the 365 songs challenge (many of them have lyrics in the liner notes…))  Here’s a partially finished document with improvised lyrics from the challenge: https://jessicaintherainbow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/365-days-lyrics1.pdf

Oh and I have an instagram just for songs/lyrics – usually with handwritten doodles. 
@jitr_tunes (http://instagram.com/jitr_tunes)

 

xo jessica