She awoke from a dream

The gods fell to sleep

Time turned to dust

It dirtied her feet

She pulled up the roots

She fell to her knees

She sank in the mud

The roots, they ran deep

The earth, it had bound her

A heartbeat, an anchor

A gate and a keeper

The sap in a tree

Her father was a fire dog

Her brother, a golden dog

She was the water dog

Born from the sea

A dark lotus opened

In the belly of the ocean

She awoke from a dream

As the gods fell to sleep.

I was far across the water

Locked away inside

We were high up in the mountains

On the other side

I was swept up by the darkness

A force I could not fight

The silver moon was full and trembling

Pulling in the tide

And I don't want to be your anchor

The ocean here is wide

The land gets swallowed by the water

Becoming a barrier island

I stared across this big, gray ocean

When I was a child

Even in the deepest canyons

There exists a light

And we don't need to swim forever

Our souls are intertwined

You're the land and I'm the water

A bridge to the other side

When our souls first came together

I saw it in your eyes

A shiny pearl in the darkest canyon

The purest source of light

The silver moon is just a sliver

Pulling out the tide

The longest bridge, we crossed together

To the other side.

Been waiting for death to find me 

Since 1964

I stayed in California 

Just back from the faraway war

I came home to the USA

To the land of a foreign god

When the earth caved in beneath me

Just like it never was 

I made my home in the mountains

Where the last of the condors fly 

So many ghosts surround me

I don't mind 'cause I keep them alive 

Down there, no one remembers

And time has slipped away

Up here, it's 1965

On the radio, The Stones are playing

On this side of the mountain

The desert Diablo winds blow

Across the bedrock of the desert

And through the cursed lands of my soul

The dragonflies are sparkling blue 

Snakes lay on the slate to stay warm

I sit and watch the sun go down 

Time circles itself 'round the sun

Death, he still remembers me

Having looked into my eyes

Been waiting for him to find me again

Since 1969

But all these years, he's stayed away

On this mountain, I've grown old

I used to hear the old men say 

It's the same wherever you go

I made my home in the mountains

Where the last of the condors fly

My faraway boys surround me

I'm the one who keeps them alive.

I drive around these dusty roads

Finding pieces of you in the sky

The road behind me disappears 

In the last days of July

The summer sun is fading

The mourning doves are sighing

The songbirds, they are moving on

To take flight in another sky

I can see the southern oaks

Stretched out before the sun

The amber sun is disappearing

Underneath the ocean 

Driving on these lonely roads

You speak to me in signs

Taking flight from the surface of earth

Like a dark-winged butterfly

I see you in the future

In the light of the fireflies 

I'd drive through August and everything after

To see you again in the sky

My days here are not over

On earth, I'm still doing my time

One day I'll get my golden wings

And be next to you flying 

The nights are getting colder 

September has come to an end

Headlights cast over the rolling desert

Time crumbles back into sand

The roots of the plants here are shallow

When the wind comes, I watch them take flight

History connects them to the earth

But destiny ties them to the sky

I'll wait for my wings and be patient 

Rooted for now here on earth

I know my way through the darkness now 

You've shown me the places to search

I grow my roots to stay shallow

Never quite tied to one place

The horizon approaches, the road disappears 

I live in an in-between state

Like two points of light in the darkness 

Your sky connecting with mine

Taking flight from the surface of earth

Like a dark-winged butterfly.

If I could hold the golden sun

And I could catch the wind

If there was nowhere left to go

And nothing left to dream

I'd set sail across the sea

Pulled by the ivory wind

The promise of another coast

The shore of another dream

A white dove flies above me

My only tie to land 

She sings her songs of freedom to me 

Not fighting the course of the wind

The ocean covers over me

I take a deep breath in 

In the dark, I hear her breath 

The waves crashing down on the sand

The river has begun to flow

Silence settles over the golden coast

So many miles away from home

And I begin to dream

So much I took for granted

Before the storm touched land

How quickly history disappears

When water runs over the sand

Nothing here was meant to keep 

History dissolves on the shore 

Time is just a single breath

An island surrounded by water

A white dove flies above me

My only tie to land

She sings her songs of freedom

Not fighting the course of the wind

The white clouds move above us

We rise, then fall again

So many miles left to go

Before we touch land again

The ocean hushes me to sleep

I take a deep breath in 

In the dark, I hear her breath

In the silence, I understand.

He said not to be afraid

When the angel came

In the halls of ancient spirits

That are echoing your name 

He said it will get darker 

That land will wash away

He said it will get darker

To find the light again

I walk upon the cold, gray stone

Beyond the walls of dreams

The salty fog soaked in my hair

Seaweed tangled around my feet

He said all souls would lose their way

But we are not our earthly pain

To remember who we are again

On earth, unbinds the chains 

No hope can grow in bitter soil

Remember who you are, my child

It's only pain and nothing more

A shadow from outside

It's never been the way you are

To be afraid without the stars

Forgive yourself your broken heart 

The light comes from inside

No doubt can grow where love is wild

Dark horses on the beaches, white

Captives of the boundless night 

Running on the earth 

Faith is proven when you're lost

When there is not a single star

But there's no shadow that exists

Without a source of light

Where seabirds fly, the sky is gray

My feet erode the land away

The spirits of the ancient ones

Are singing out my name

They say it will get darker 

That land will wash away

They say it will get darker

To find the light again

The north wind hits with all its might

Birds unsteady in their flight 

In the heavy arms of night

I'm caught by the angry sea

I looked down on the crashing waves 

On the night the angel came

He said I shouldn't be afraid

No shadow exists without light.

The rust of my conscience

I am shaking it off

The birds flying higher

A crack inside the earth

I come to the ocean 

To let it fly away

The weight of an anchor 

Dusty wings covered in clay 

And I don't have to deserve it

The things that God can see

We are all fallen angels 

Fruit from the original tree

The wind shook the branches

And we came tumbling down 

A world of confusion 

A fractured, splintered ground 

And the wind is against us

Crashing in from the north

I let it blow through me

I don't fear it anymore

The salt and the iron

Have shocked all the roots

So I let them grow deeper 

A mountain forms from the earth

The cracks in my conscience

Are filled in by the sand

I stand on the mountain

The wind builds again 

And I don't have to deserve it

The things that God can see

We all have our anchors

And we all have our wings.

Those who come from flesh and bone

Can't exist in more than one place 

But that's the way the story's told

Inconsistencies all get erased

My hands became withered 

My skeleton shivered 

I laid my bones down on the ground

And all of the monsters 

They said I'd concocted

Came crawling and spilling out

They roam lonely places

And liminal spaces

Walking the barren rock lands

They wouldn't believe me  

Like rain, they look through me

The proof buried deep under land 

An old tree cracked opened 

And it started snowing 

Silence fell over the moors

The midsummer birds

Had become my deserters

Stealing the song from the forest 

I go to the clearing

To get my own healing 

When there's a scream deep in my heart

I dance with the ghosts 

Of the ones that I love

From me, they have never been far

They are the healers

My trusted revealers 

When the feeling, I cannot contain

I build up the scream

And the monsters inside

Buried deep, spill out again

The clearing has shown me 

All that's below me

And how to align with the sky 

For I was the haunter

The oldest of monsters

The most terrible thing in the night

I heard the earth screaming 

The ancestors keening

From a hollowed out, broken down tree

Returning the song back to the sky

Releasing, we howled and we screamed 

And all of the monsters

They said I'd concocted 

Have always followed me

From the highest point of the wind-worn cliffs

I scream and they drop to the sea. 

And I'll meet you there

In the indigo mountains 

And we won't remember 

Carrying the pain

Our souls will unfurl

Like the petals of a rose 

Only on earth 

Is there ever an end

And it won't matter

That we have died

No one told us

It's like coming alive 

And those we loved

We'll never have lost

For heaven was closer 

Than we ever thought 

Once we departed

We were set free

The stars in the sky

The wind in the trees

The little red birds

That come with the snow

The song is the sky

The way the heart knows

In all of these things

You will find me 

For heaven was closer

Than you ever believed

All of our paths 

Will lead to one road 

So keep your heart open

And mind how you go

I'll see you again

In the indigo mountains 

And we won't remember 

Carrying the pain

The little red birds

Will come with the snow

And you will remember

The way the heart knows.

I traveled a long road to get here

Through the fog and through the snow

The hillsides, they all crumbled

The roots too weak to hold

I braced against the anchor

That sank inside my chest

The land, it turned to water

And there was nothing left

Something ancient spoke to me

It moved inside my blood

The depth of the ocean canyons

The heat of a thousand suns

I dug through the mud to get here

From somewhere deep in the earth

The underworld, it opened

And stole away my breath

My soul, it ached, my body hurt

So much buried 'neath the earth

My ears roared with the thunder

That drowning souls will know

Salt water courses through the dirt

I am falling through the earth

The land has turned to water

And only God is left

The sky was never empty

It's always been alive

The Hopi had a prophecy

The return of the original light

Maybe the world's always ending

And we're just riding the wave

Crashing through the darkness

The soft earth giving way

Our lungs, they fill with water

As the next wave starts to crest

Unable to sever the anchor

Until only God is left

To find peace in the darkness

To claw our way out through the dirt

To find the strength to surrender

The courage to let it hurt.