13. HUMMINGBIRD — Lyrics
Color remembers my visit.
A flower leans open,
waiting again.
(Scroll below lyrics to read about the song.)
[intro]
Every arrival carries an offering.
I arrive where giving opens receiving.
Ask the bloom
what it offers.
I drink the answer.
Hummingbird
[verse]
teach me generosity.
teach my mouth gratitude.
teach my body trust.
Wings hold the pause.
Now!
Enter the trembling color.
Tongue finds the hidden well.
Sweetness confesses.
Taste the charge of reciprocity.
Hummingbird says: receive,
then release.
Beauty feeds.
[chorus]
Nectar nectar,
moments thick with flavor
Regulate through pleasure
Hummingbird Heart-first
Give-and-take—
Hummingbird drinks again
[bridge]
recalibrate joy
receive without guilt
Hummingbird knows—
What you love sustains you.
Return to what feeds you.
[chorus]
Nectar nectar,
moments thick with flavor
Regulate through pleasure
Hummingbird Heart-first
Give-and-take—
Hummingbird drinks again
[outro]
Every sip, a promise kept.
Every return is love remembering the way.
I gave her the bloom. She bowed back.
Color remembers my visit.
A flower leans open,
waiting again.
About the Song
“Hummingbird” is a reciprocity song.
This song ends BYRDS by circulating rather than stopping.
After watching, releasing, timing, striking, speaking, taking, listening, hoping, playing, glowing, and clearing, one living mechanic remains: exchange.
Hummingbird arrives as the body’s proof that sweetness is allowed.
Hummingbirds drink, move on, and return. Flowers open because the exchange works. Nothing hoarded. Nothing wasted. Motion keeps the rhythm honest. That felt like the most accurate closing for this album.
Regulate through pleasure
This piece carries strong influence from Abraham Hicks, especially the idea that emotion functions as feedback and guidance. Pleasure reads here as information. Joy reads as regulation. Alignment reads as the body recognizing what feeds it.
There’s also a clear undertone from Louise Hay in the permission language: “receive without guilt,” “teach my body trust,” “teach my mouth gratitude.” Receiving becomes a practice of worthiness in motion. Gratitude becomes a bodily posture rather than a performance.
Why this closes the album
Placed last, Hummingbird closes the spiral opened by Crow.
What begins as witnessing ends as participation. The watcher returns as a guest. The system moves from observation to exchange.
Crow stays on the wire.
Hummingbird enters the bloom.
Both remain true. One keeps watch. One keeps returning.
A closing note
Across BYRDS, each bird carries a whisper.
Hummingbird’s whisper says: return to what feeds you, and feed it back.
