Mosquitoes Lyrics

There's a creek I would walk to when my house felt like a locked room
Lean on old wooden bridges watch the eels playing cool
I could walk a little further down the dirt path on the shoulder
To the biggest waterfall my city limits could produce

Boy it fell
Kept on falling
Biting down
Cutting rock
Slow erosion

Leave me here on the stone
I'm only here to feed mosquitos
Only skin, only blood
A little less now than there was

In January '23 the creek became a raging sea
A great torrential flood that ripped the bridges from the base
The soft slope of the valley ravaged, cracked, and wounded badly
Fallen giants breathing heavily across the severed track

They fell
Stayed fallen
Roots exposed
Reaching high
Something's growing

Leave me here by the bones
I'm only here to feed mosquitos
Only skin, only blood
A little less now than there was
A little less now than there was

I still go, it's been a year now
Pass the chain link fence that keeps out
With the bridges all still blown out
You can't amble anymore
Overgrown a bit and I take off my shoes to cross it
Find the current has forgotten
How it felt to break the world

If I fall
I'll fall in
Soaking wet
Fallen pride
Till we're laughing

Leave me here
Let me go
I'm only here to feed mosquitos
Only skin, only blood
A little less now than there was

Just leave me here
On my own
I only breathe to feed the egos
Only flesh, only blood
I'm letting go of what I'm not
A little less now than there was
A little less now than there was