how powerful music can be…

…some songs are just barely becoming safe again,
and some songs maybe never will be.

and i think that’s just how powerful music can be.
it’s such an aesthetic in our existence. we feel so much
from it, and because of it, and through it… and
so it can break us completely open in heartbreak,
but i wouldn’t trade that for how much it makes us feel
alive and free and infinite, and in love, in all of
the beautiful moments.

– butterflies rising

…to just let it all be unheavy

– butterflies rising

you don’t love,
you just hold people close
to have someone to hurt,
or to hurt someone else with…

but none of it’s love.

– butterflies rising

she’s always been searching for some way to escape gravity

– butterflies rising

paper planes, or angel wings, anything to lift the heavy, to let him dream…

he’s always been searching for some way to escape gravity

– butterflies rising

paper planes,
or angel wings, anything
to lift the heavy, to let her dream…

she’s always been searching for some
way to escape gravity

– butterflies rising

someday i’m going
to love someone, and i’m going
to lay at their feet more love than they
could’ve ever imagined

…and you will never be anything
more to anyone than somebody that
someone, somewhere is
recovering from

– butterflies rising

standing strong in your fully mended bones

i hope that one day
the person who hurt you sees you from afar
dancing in the radiance of
your unburdened spirit and standing
strong in your fully mended bones…

and that for just a moment you feel their gaze,
so you can forever know, without question,
the powerlessness of their
perception over you

– butterflies rising