The lyrics
Sun around my head, black outside the frame. I don't bow to the border, I don't answer to my name. Head in the sun, heart in the dark. Ring me in light you can't cage a spark. They cut me a circle and called it the day, bright as a coin on the tongue. I turned my eyes where the hot light stayed, kept both ears up, kept still, kept young. Red at my shoulder like a warning stitch, rough little flame on a thread. I learned from the black room around me how to carry my own sun instead. Sun around my head, black outside the frame. I don't bow to the border, I don't answer to my name. Head in the sun, heart in the dark. Ring me in light you can't cage a spark. Behind me the yellow keeps cracking in flight, small sharp marks like wings in the glare. The world wants a portrait, clean and polite, but the wild won't sit in a chair. I have been border, badge, shadow, and noise, a bright little target in space. But the dark made a drum of the outside, and the beat found the bones in my face. The ring is not a leash. The light is not a law. The dark is not an ending. It is where I learned to draw one breath, one mark, one truth with a raw bright heart. Sun around my head, black outside the frame. I don't bow to the border, I don't answer to my name. Head in the sun, heart in the dark. Ring me in light you can't cage a spark. Sun around my head, black outside the frame. Now I wear the circle, but it never wears my name. Head in the sun, heart in the dark. Circle of fire I turn it into my mark. Sun around my head... Head in the sun... Heart in the dark... I turn the circle into my mark.
