Gone again
Gone
again
Hey now man's own kin
we commend into the wind
grateful arms grateful limbs
grateful soul he's gone again
I have a winter's tale
how vagrant hearts relent prevail
sow their seed into the wind
seize the sky and they're gone again
fame is fleeting God is nigh
we raise our arms to him on night
we shoot our flint into the sun
we bless our spoils and we're gone we're gone
Hey now man's own kin
we commend into the wind
grateful arms grateful limbs
grateful heart he's gone again
Here a man man's own kin
he turned his back and his own people shot him
and he fell on his knees
before the burning plane
and he beheld fields of gold his land his sun
and he arose his blood aflame
the clouds pressed with hand prints stained
one last breath
the sky is high
the hungry earth
the empty vein
the ashes rain
death's own bed
man's own kin
into the wind
one last breath
hole in life
love knot tied
braid undone
child born
the hollow horn
warrior cried
a warrior died
one last breath
lick of flame
spirit moaned
spirit shed
the heavens fed
man's own kin
grips the sky
and he's gone again
Hey now man's own kin
we lay down into the wind
grateful arms grateful limbs
grateful heart he's gone again
Hey now man's own kin
he ascends into the wind
grateful heart grateful limbs
grateful man he's gone again
Beneath
the southern Cross
Oh
to be
not anyone
gone
this maze of being
skin
oh
to cry
not any cry
so mournful that
the dove just laughs
the steadfast gasps
oh
to owe
not anyone
nothing
to be
not here
but here
forsaking
equatorial bliss
who walked through
the callow mist
dressed in scraps
who walked
the curve of the world
whose bone scraped
whose flesh unfurled
who grieves not
anyone gone
to greet lame
the inspired sky
amazed to stumble
where gods get lost
beneath
the southern cross
About
a boy
Toward another
he has gone
to breathe an air
beyond his own
toward a wisdom
beyond the shelf
toward a dream
that dreams itself
about a boy
beyond it all
about a boy
beyond it all
from the forest
from the foam
from the field
that he had
known
toward a river
twice as blessed
toward the inn
of happiness
about a boy
beyond it all
about a boy
beyond it all
from a chaos
raging sweet
from the deep
and dismal street
toward another
kind of peace
toward the great
emptiness
about a boy
beyond it all
about a boy
beyond it all
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I stood among them
I stood alone
boy boy
just a boy
just a little boy
[ ]
just a little boy
who will never grow
My
madrigal
We waltzed beneath motionless skies
all heaven's glory turned in your eyes
we expressed such sweet vows
oh till death do us part
oh till death do us part
oh-oh
We waltzed beneath God's point of view
knowing no ending to our rendezvous
we expressed such sweet vows
oh till death do us part
oh till death do us part
oh-oh
oh till death do us part
oh till death do us part
oh-oh
We waltzed beneath motionless skies
all heaven's glory turned in your eyes
you pledged me your heart
till death do us part
you pledged me your heart
till death do us part
till death do us part
Summer
Cannibals
I was down in Georgia
nothing was as real
as the street beneath my feet
descending into air
The cauldron was a-bubbling
the flesh was lean
and the women moved forward
like piranhas in a stream
they spread themselves before me
an offering so sweet
and they beckoned and they beckoned
come on darling eat
Eat the summer cannibals
eat eat eat
you eat the summer cannibals
eat eat eat
They circled around me
natives in a ring
and I saw their souls a-withering
like snakes in chains
and they wrapped themselves around me
ummm what a treat
and they rattled their tales hissin'
come on let's eat
Eat the summer cannibals
eat eat eat
you eat the summer cannibals
eat eat eat
I felt a rising in my throat
the girls a-saying grace
and the air the viscous air
pressed against my face
and it all got too damn much for me
just got too damn rough
and I pushed away my plate
and said boys I've had enough
and I laid upon the table
another piece of meat
and I opened up my veins to them
and said come on eat
Eat the summer cannibals
eat eat eat
you eat the summer cannibals
eat eat eat
you eat the summer cannibals
eat eat eat
you eat the summer cannibals
eat eat eat
Cause I was down in Georgia
nothing was as real
as the street beneath my feet
descending into hell
So eat eat eat
you eat eat eat
you eat eat eat
eat eat eat
Dead
to the world
Dead to the world my body
was sleeping
on my mind was nothing at all
come a mist an aire so appealing
I'm here a whispering you summouned I called
I formed me a presence whose aspect was changing
oh he would shift he would not shift at all
we sat for a while he was very engaging
and when he was gone I was gone on a smile
With a strange way of walking
and a strange way of breathing
more lives than a cat
that let me astray
all in all he captured my heart
dead to the world and just
slipped away
I heard me a music that drew me to dancing
lo I turned under his spell
I opened my coat but he never came closer
I bolted the door and whispered oh well
With a strange way of walking
and a strange way of breathing
more lives than a cat
that let me astray
all in all he captured my heart
dead to the world and just
slipped away
I laid in the rushes the air was upon me
wondering well I just couldn't discern
will he come back come back to me
oh I whispered will you ever return
I was feeling sensations in no dictionary
he was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke
the life in his fingers unwound my existence
dead to the world alive I awoke
With a strange way of walking
and a strange way of breathing
less than a breath of shimmer and smoke
the life in his fingers unwound my existence
dead to the world alive I awoke
alive I awoke
alive alive I awoke
alive I awoke
alive I awoke
alive
I awoke
I awoke
alive I awoke
alive alive-o
alive alive-o
Wing
I was a wing in heaven
blue
soared over the ocean
soared over Spain
and I was free
needed nobody
it was beautiful
it was beautiful
I was a pawn
didn't have a move
didn't have nowhere
that I could go
but I was free
I needed nobody
it was beautiful
it was beautiful
and if there's one thing
could do for you
you'd be a wing
in heaven blue
I was a vision
in another eye
and they saw nothing
no future at all
yet I was free
I needed nobody
it was beautiful
it was beautiful
and if there's one thing
could do for you
you'd be a wing
in heaven blue
and if there's one thing
could do for you
you'd be a wing
in heaven blue
and if there's one thing
could do for you
you'd be a wing
in heaven blue
Ravens
Common fortune seeks us all
and slips our binding rings
we'll turn our heads
and make us reel
we'll bare our arms as wings
before our feet a feather drifts
beyond us it will fall
cause time will bid and make us rise
make ravens of us all
My love he breathed the air of kings
yet fell beneath his luck
and in his heart a yearning yet
before his time time shook
all the gifts that God had gave
and those by fate denied
gone to where all treasures laid
and where the raven flies
oh there are places I agree
where I have yet to roam
the Egyptian field
the arctic sea where shadows
haunt and moan
but none but sky
I have to go
should I return to thee
gone to where the feather flies
to all eternity
but for a time I got more time
till I a raven be
cause time will bid and make us rise
make ravens of us all
and time will bid and make us fly
make ravens of us all
and time will bid and make us fly
make ravens of us all
The
wicked messenger
(
Bob Dylan )
There was a wicked
messenger
From Eli he did come,
With a mind that multiplied
The smallest matter.
When questioned who had sent for him,
He answered with his thumb,
For his tongue it could not speak, but only flatter.
He stayed behind the assembly hall,
It was there he made his bed,
Oftentimes he could be seen returning.
Until one day he just appeared
With a note in his hand which read,
"The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning."
Oh, the leaves began to fallin'
And the seas began to part,
And the people that confronted him were many.
And he was told but these few words,
Which opened up his heart,
"If ye cannot bring good news, then don't bring any."
Fireflies
I been walking
wherefore am I walking
I been walking
If you see me walking
a-walking a-walking
if you see me walking
Don't avert your eyes
don't turn away
don't turn away
I'm coming to you
oh-oh oh oh
oh-oh oh to you
Living in steps
till I can rest
living in steps
till I'm blessed by you
I and I alone
can but do for you
to twist in my hand
the thorn of thy youth
to draw thy seed
to turn in birth
thy sighs
(living in steps)
thy moans
till we can rest
living in steps
till I'm by you
all I ever wanted
I and I alone
I will wash your feet
and dry them with my hair
I will give to you
every other tear
thy breath thy spear
thy season of mirth
seven steps
until I can rest
seven steps
til I am blessed by you
all I ever wanted
I wanted I wanted
all I ever wanted
I wanted for you
oh-wo-wo ...
oh-wo-wo
...
all I ever wanted
I wanted for you
five steps
till I can rest
five steps
till I'm blessed by you
four steps
till I can rest
four steps
till I'm blessed by you
all I ever wanted
I wanted I wanted
all I ever wanted
I wanted for you
I and I alone
ghost of thy ghost
walk I will walk
a burning stem
to illume thy night
(three steps...)
blood of my blood
bone of my bone
(three steps...)
can but do for you
I and I alone
two steps
till I can rest
two steps
till I'm blessed by you
oh oh oh ...
can but do for you
I and I alone
oh oh oh ...
Farewell
reel
It's been a hard time
and when it rains
it rains on me
the sky just opens
and when it rains
it pours
I walk alone
assaulted it seems
by tears from heaven
and darling I can't help
thinking those tears are yours
Our wild love came from above
and wilder still
is the wind that howls
like a voice that knows it's gone
cause darling you died
and well I cried
but I'll get by
salute our love
and send you a smile
and move on
So darling farewell
all will be well
and then all will be fine
the children will rise
strong and happy be sure
cause your love flows
and the corn still grows
and God only knows
we're only given
as much as the heart can endure
But I don't know why
but when it rains
it rains on me
the sky just opens
and when it rains
it pours
But I look up
and a rainbow appears
like a smile from heaven
and darling I can't
help thinking that smile
is yours