AK Patterson - I Don't Know How to Die Lyrics

Tie me to a sinking ship
And I will find a way to float
There is something in me that won't quit
A force that never lets me go

Even when my body's broke and limp
And my spirit strung out on a wire
And the small coil of my will it clings
I don't know how to die

I'm a lily on a twilight lake
Finding peace within her pain
From the bank the angels stare indifferent
Among them I'm unheavenly and plain

Yet the universe it breaths me in
She's keeping me alive
For no purpose more than surviving
I don't know how to die
I don't know how to die

Somewhere on my pilgrimage
Father walked out of my sky
Now godless I am left screaming
I don't know how to die
I don't know how to die

Like a linen priestess laying long
Set the arrow heads a light
Birth me from my aching shore
Where deliverance shall finally be mine

I don't know how to die
I don't know how to die