I'm taking the day to be in the body My mother gave me before I went away Out in the desert, I fought my own shadow For it was a vapor, and I'm a body You got me by the throat Take me by surprise In my mind you're always half my size Struggle for control, secret of the heart Have and hold the soul of night and dark You look in the mirror, it was always bright and clear I weathered the winter I skipped my own dinner For I am sustained by the dark of the world And dark was the valley That dissolved my shadow My will is pure, and I'm a body I waited too long, more sickness than health I never had nothing until I had myself