Starting Again - Missy Higgins

Your father was always the rational kind

He followed the news he read all the science

There’s no room for more, no room to expand

Would you really give birth astride sinking sand?

For the world is a lung we barely breathe through

Why make a new life to pass it on to?

So I searched for a way to keep you a dream

One that lived in my heart and would never be seen

But you, my son, you broke through it all

Through every reason each side of the wall

You, my light, my hope at the end

You my son, my starting again

My starting again

Your father was always a practical man

The oceans are rising, the hole is expanding

I’ve seen what’s coming, the ash in the sky

He told me «My woman, we don’t have a right

You’ll never find a reason bigger than this

To keep your heart in a closed fist.»

So I searched for a meaning bigger than you

Tried telling myself the right thing to do

But you, my son, you broke through it all

Every reason each side of the wall

You, my light, my hope at the end

You my son, my starting again

My starting again

My starting again

My starting again

When you appeared

It was louder than sense

Stronger than life

Bigger than fear

Yeah when you appeared

It was fire and God and tears and oceans of light

And suddenly hearing his heart loud and clear

Like he was starting again

Starting again, starting again, starting again, starting again

Yeah we were starting again, starting again, starting again

Your father was always the rational kind, till you arrived