Heart of My Own

I think from listening to this song repeatedly, I may have a correction for some of the lyrics. I believe it to be: "Back home, What do I hold? For the maid or the mother I'll be, if only the loom and a thread will hold. It is work too, and as that I hear it, tomorrow I mend it: the empty bones. There are roses that come without seekin'. They are the ones that I have to sow..."

Its a tough part to discern, but I think That is closer to what it actually is.

On a more interpretive note, I think this is one of the most poetic and musically moving songs I've ever heard. Basia Bulat has such a great command of her thoughts and how she expresses them is vivid and original. The images she uses, like the idea of the loom and the thread, as either a mother or a maid express a crossroads of sorts. Then she continues the image, with "tomorrow I mend it, the empty bones" depicts a feeling of indecision, which ends tomorrow. The roses represent rights of passage in life which whether we mean to our not, at one point become important to us in our lives. (ie: becoming a mother or not) Just a few thoughts... I hope everyone else enjoys this song as much as I do.