Andrea Gibson - Angels of the Get Through lyrics

This year is the the hardest
Of your whole life
So hard you cannot see a future, most days
The pain is bigger than anything else
Takes up the whole horizon
No matter where you are
You feel unsafe, you feel unsaved
Your past so present you can
Feel your baby teeth sitting on the couch
You swear your feet don’t reach the floor
You keep remembering the first time
You saw a bird’s nest
Held together by an old shoe lace
And scraps of a plastic bag
You knew the home of a person
Could be built like that
A lot of things you’d rather throw away
You keep worrying you’re taking
Up too much space
I wish you’d let yourself be the Milky Way
Remember when I told you I was
Gonna become a full-time poet
And you paid my rent for three years?
Best Friend, angel of the get-through
All living is storm chasing
Every good heart has lost it's roof
Let all the walls collapse at your feet
Scream "timber" when they ask you how you are
"Fine" is the suckiest word it
Is the opposite of HERE
Here is the only place left on the map
Here is where you learn
Laughter can go extinct and come back
I am already building a museum
For every treasure you unearth
In the rock bottom holy vulnerable cliff
God mason, heart heavier than all the bricks
Say this is what the pain made of you
An open, open, open road
An avalanche of feel it all
Don’t ever let anyone tell you
You are too much or it has been too long
Whatever guards the feet of the
Bridge of a song you are made of that thing
That unbreakable note
That photograph of you at five years old
The year you ran away from school
Because you wanted to go home
You are almost there
You are the same compass you have always been
You are the same friend who
Never left my side during my worst year
You caught every tantrum I threw
With your bare hands
Chucked it back at that blood moon
Said "it's okay
Everyone’s survival looks a little
Bit like death sometimes"
I wrote a poem called "Say Yes"
While I was cursing your name
For not letting me go
Best friend, this is what we do
We gather each other up
We say, the cup is half yours and half mine
We say alone is the last
Place you will ever be
We say tonight let's just stay
Inside reading Pema Chodron
While everyone else is out on the town
Pema will say
"only to the degree we expose ourselves
Over and over to annihilation
Can that which is indestructible
In us be found" you’ll say Pema is so wise
And I’ll say yes she is, and we are too

Angels of the get-through we are too