(Instrumental)
Bird of prey Gonna float away To a feather cloud formation I?m gonna dig For pretty and strange Gonna open me up A black gold vein Arrow on fire Flash
Twenty days walking so lonely and talking to myself and the rocks and sand Got me to thinking 'bout going and drinking in a tavern with a clean-shaven
I?m a chimney sweeping man You see the black lines On the backs of my hands I planted all the gardens I sent off all the hand-typed letters To the empty
Cool water? I want to fly like a scroll unfolding Float to a stone ledge Wait for a moment ?fore spilling Words to a hedge And going away Like a poem
I was walking through the snow When I saw a distant glow Of a farmhouse nestled down beneath the trees With a guitar on my back I thought it sure can
I felt my vocal chords weakening I felt my concave thoughts I felt my voluntary blindness For staring straight into the sun The romantic air of your
Now the raging of the forest fires end And all the mammals fled I smell in the charred darkness A little green, a little red When you sing your song
I will not have a child, I will be wild And not produce meat for your slaughter No more cannon fodder Company whip cracks at the break of dawn Back
When you sing, when you sing The stars fill up my eyes Galaxies pour down my cheeks Galaxies?they flood the street Galaxies When we dance, when we dance
My wooden vibrating mouth Sing me your lover?s song Come with me we?ll head up north Where the rivers run icy and strong The empty theater is lying
Hear the whistle blow far off In the still night without stars See the tracks laid flat with a hammer's might They're the spike driver's scars They're
lemonade Unsinkable thirsting in the backyard Can I call you mine? Can I call you mine? Can I call you mine? Can I call you mine? Repeat (Thanks to Lauren
Lake swimming Shucking free our deadened selves Like snakes and corn do Our bodies tore off swimming suits And all the old notions The cold ocean far
Watch, i can flash across the sky A lightning bolt from up on high And i can crash into myself Now a flower blooms in reverse And a song takes back a
Breathe life to the street from the mouth Those ruby red lips have much to give Pull life from the land with your capable hands Those life loving beautiful