I Lose Myself

[Verse 1] My hair grows, withers, and falls to ground — Am I like the tree's own time? My tears surge, swell, and flow around — Am I like the river's tide? My wrinkles gather, rise, and cross the skin — Am I like the mountain's spine? My love ignites, fades, and gleams within — Am I like the star's own shine? [Pre-Chorus 1] Heaven and earth with me arise, All things with me abide. Twenty-eight joints, to constellations bound, Three hundred sixty-five points, like years that turn around. I am a child of this world — where has my trace been found? [Chorus] I am the tree — the wind sings as it goes, I am the river — moonbeams shatter on my flows, I am the mountain — clouds rest upon my shoulders, I am the star — the long night glows and smolders. I am all things, and all things are me — Dust and the Milky Way, both in my palm I see. [Verse 2] My thoughts drift far — colorless, formless, free — Am I like the wind's wandering? My silence piles, grows heavy, and breaks in me — Am I like the snow's vast covering? My face blooms, flourishes, and fades away — Am I like the flower's scent? My soul floats, roams, and dissolves in gray — Am I like the cloud's descent? [Pre-Chorus 2] In this life I came to see how the tree must grow, Watch rivers run to sea, watch the wind take its flow. I am a single planet, yet the center of the sky — Now I know I am all things, and all things are my light. [Bridge] A summer night — a sudden headache calls, They ask if I'm alright — I smile and say "no falls." But deep inside I know, by the snowy lake and hill, A tree that's bound to me is falling, bending still. After it falls, all things still sway and gleam — I am still me, and all things still in my dream.