Animus - Original Song

I wrote this song while recording my song "Neon Maze" -- listening to the instrumental, I suddenly had a bunch of melodies come to me. I was going to create some kind of elaborate harmonic outro to Neon Maze, but ultimately decided to just create another song out of it.
This song is about being your own BFF 'cause Carl Jung said so (anima/animus theory).
The video for this song is pretty random - I wanted to use these hummingbird clips I'd recorded, but then realized with the clips on loop the video would make me dizzy (repeated jerky movements), and I didn't want my own video to make me want to puke, so I ended up throwing together a bunch of random clips from over the years.
Also, the chorus vocals aren't great (specifically in the second chorus) but, you know, this life is nothing but a demo for the next dimension, so I decided to release this audio from the oppressive clutches of my hard drive.
Lyrics:
Sunlight refracts beyond our reach
Read books in a language I can’t read
No measure to these secrets I keep
In places where you’ll now never reach
As all these girls replace me
But I don’t care ‘cause I know the breeze
A bottle at sea, how it returns to me
A compass rose I’ll never need
‘Cause my right hand right man,
he’s right here in my hand
My right hand hand man,
he’s right here, animus
Animus
Animus
I think I know why you used to say
When we die there’s nothing
You wanted to keep me afraid,
And if there is, oh what’d you face
But your authority I’ve betrayed
I’ve slept with death, I've gone away
Past the horizons of which you speak
And I see no impossibilities
‘Cause my right hand right man,
he’s right here in my hand
My right hand hand man,
he’s right here, animus
Animus
Animus
Yeah if I can’t be a belle or a queen
Then let memory convince me of these things
Soft filters on a movie screen
In a world of my own imagining
With no end to these fragile things
That live on the edge of our memories
porcelain dolls, pastel figurines
these saints with taped wings cracking
Say who cares, who cares, who cares
Say who's scared, who's scared, who's scared?
Of him leaving,
My heart breaking,
The world ending, not me.
My right hand right man,
he’s right here in my hand
My right hand hand man,
he’s right here, animus
Animus
Animus
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Wonderful video! Please post the lyrics?! Thanks for all your wonderful original compositions!

[@enchanted.forests]

Thank you so much! The lyrics are in the description ❤