Sanat

All winter long the lake is praised for bearing every load
The trucks drive out across its back, it's solid as a road
And I was like the lake once - you could walk on me all year
Whatever weight you set on me, I swallowed it right here

But have you heard the lake in April? Have you heard the great ice sing?
It cracks like distant thunder and the sound means only spring
The strongest thing the ice will ever do beneath the sun
Is break - and let the water rise where winter used to run

I am strong enough to break
Like the lake breaks into spring
Like the seed case splits wide open
For the sake of blossoming
All my iron years, my frozen years
Were waiting on this sound:
The thunder of the great thaw
The strength of coming unbound

The first time that I wept where other men could see my face
I braced for all the laughter that had chased me every place
But the room just held me, quiet, and a hand came to my back
And I heard the April thunder - the ice beginning to crack

I am strong enough to break
Like the lake breaks into spring
Like the seed case splits wide open
For the sake of blossoming
All my iron years, my frozen years
Were waiting on this sound:
The thunder of the great thaw
The strength of coming unbound

Courage is a love affair with everything unknown
And no country was less mapped to me than the weather in my chest
I'd been brave in every storm except the ones I owned
Now I break - and the breaking is my bravest and my best

I am strong enough to break
And the breaking is not the fall
The hardest ice on the deepest lake
Was never strong at all
It was only frozen - there's a difference
And I finally know the sound:
The thunder of the great thaw
The strength of coming unbound

Listen to the lake
Listen to the lake
That sound is not an ending
That sound is the spring