Lyrics

BLOOM
(Jolene Dixon, Melody Walker 2024)

I knew heaven
When I was 5
endless pleasure
So free and so alive
I was eleven
When the hammer fell
This new feeling I should be ashamed to be myself

Is that the day that I became so uncomfortable in my skin?
They told me my soul was untouchable without Him

Is it a sin to get to heaven too soon?
Does a flower need permission just to bloom?

I took a lover at 25
He couldn't please me
but at least he could’ve tried
At 37 I forgave my past
I lost religion
And I found god at last

‘Cause they plucked all my petals
And sold them right back to me
Always edging toward heaven kept somewhere just out of reach

Is it a sin to get to heaven too soon?
Does a flower need permission just to bloom?
Out of the garden where all this shit started I’m digging and making some room
to bloom

I pray when that day comes
for my final breath
I’ll fly away free
of any fear of death

Well I don’t know where we go
or what any of all this means, if anything
Dust to dust, womb to tomb, someday soon maybe I’ll be a maple tree
Right back to the garden where all this shit started I’m digging and still finding room
to bloom