Where will I go

One day when I die

When I sink in the sea

And cut earthly ties

I'll return to the beach

Where the waves rush the shore

The long golden road

That leads to God's door

The wind will pick up

And lighten my feet

To meet the white dunes

In the midsomer heat

To life's cold sorrows

I will not be bound

The sunshine will find me

And break through the clouds

I'll return to a time

When I was young

When life was unfolding

And moved like a song

I'll return to a time

When I was free

When the dog days of summer

Were kept by the sea

I will dance with the night

And sing with the dawn

I will never get old

I will never get lost

The midsomer nights

Will roll on and on

Like when we were kids

And life was a song.

I'm gonna get on the road

I'm gonna get somewhere

I'll know the place

When I get there

The world is like an avalanche

It's got me down

But don't worry, baby

I'm gonna walk right out

I'm gonna light myself a candle

Gonna shake and lurch

Gonna dance away the devil

Shake off this curse

I can see the road to heaven

It's a tourist trap

You're on the phone forever

No one calls you back

The doctor said what's got me down

It's in my head

No one will see it coming

When I raise the dead

They talk about the rapture

About the nuclear hail

But I'll be so dead

Baby, I won't care

I'm gonna get to where I'm going

Pass me a match

I'm gonna light the holy fire, baby

Please stand back.

Tied to the mast

Wreckless and bent

Tonight the crow

Flies the nest

I will stay here

Tied to the wreck

Under blue sky

My heart is kept

I keep empty pockets

For runaway dreams

The things I can't hold

In my hands

I mourn the sky

I miss the sea

Under the willows

I stand

The clouds in the sky

Remind me that I

Have a long way

To climb

Tied to the mast

My life has been spent

I hold my dreams

In my hands.

Where is it you go

Each night when you sleep

I go east to the ocean

To the tangled blue sea

Where is it you're headed

At night in your dreams

To the trenches and canyons

Where at last I can breath

Silence surrounds me

In the arms of the deep

I forget every sorrow

That dry land keeps

Though the pressure is great

It's a weight I can bare

For under the world

I've no need for air

I lay on the seabed

Forgetting all ties

To the world overhead

Where the weather is wild

How is it I'll tell

Between life and a dream

As one comes to life

The other recedes

Each quest is the same

In tangled blue seas

We keep sight of the sun

And make peace beneath.

The colors danced

Behind her eyes

She gathered up the moonlight

The sun peeled back

The angry clouds

The colors bled to bright white

She felt the light

Move up her spine

It spoke in simple answers

Don't get lost

Inside the fire

The path of smoke and ashes

Her body burned

Her long hair hung

She waited for the midnight

She sang a song

In silver tongues

And gathered up the moonlight

She pulled the water

From the earth

And cast it to the north sky

It fell on her

In sheets of snow

The colors turned to white.

My words, they are leaving

Like ships on the sea

They dip in the distance

Night swallows day

With words, I built mountains

That lifted the sky

My foes fell to ruin

I danced in the fire

With words, I wove worlds

But the hurricanes came

My long, flowing ribbons

Were all cast away

I cast them to prayer

I cast them to peace

I cursed the mad sky

As it rained down on me

Words, my rope

Words, my anchor

Words, my earth and clay

On the gusts of a rising southern storm

In silver tongues, I sang

Words were my maps

They guided me back

From that liminal space

Where language is glass

Over blue mountains

On a steep, winding pass

I carried them with me

My ribbons and glass

With words, I wove worlds

But the hurricanes came

With my eyes on the wind

The earth fell away.

When the storms came

They opened the sky

When the sky fell

She opened her eyes

She lived with no rain

Twelve long years in the drought

The sun burned her skin

The sky held no clouds

She could hold off the weather

The sky, black and gray

But the thunder clouds found her

And the Furies, they came

She knew not the weather

That rose in her brain

Building and lifting

The tidal waves came

She kept enough rope

Enough to escape

It was tied to a time

Before the storms came

She pulled on the rope

To find her way back

But the sky always fell

As she grappled the past

She knew not the weather

Contained in her eyes

Gray clouds and blue seas

A weather, so wild

Pinned to the earth

Soaked in the mud

The storm now upon her

She let the flood come

When the sky rains

It pours from her eyes

Now when she sings

It opens the sky.

Silence, she held

In her mouth like a stone

Her bone turned to earth

The earth turned to bone

It made her teeth loose

And turned her heart gray

Grief, it had found her

And snatched her away

The dark ocean grew

Her heavy heart sank

They offered her pity

Or else, kept away

Her grief was her anchor

Her grief was her god

Her grief was a distance

That no soul could cross

She heard then a song

Rise up from the deep

A deep, booming voice

To calm the rough seas

Keep your heart warm

Do not be afraid

The soul is the sun

That lights better days

Fear not the locusts

Fear not the plagues

Fear not the darkness

From darkness, we wake

Keep walking forward

You approach a new dawn

Look to the sky

You are born of the sun.

I need the sun

To cover my skin

I need the bird

To give me her wings

So come find me, love

I am under the ground

You are the fire

That lights the way out

I forget the cold ground

When the wind lifts my wings

I fly toward the sun

Like a bird in the spring

So come with me, love

The road meets our feet

Wherever you are

Is where I am free

Let's burn through the days

And take every road

We'll never plant roots

We'll never grow old

We'll be just as young

As the day we were born

To endure this cold world

You must burn like the sun

Forget the cold ground

Our wings catch the wind

We are bound for the sun

Like birds in the spring

You've got the love

That lights every road

The future is calling

Why don't we go.

Your love, it plays like music

Golden notes that guide me in

I hear our song, it's playing

It is written on the wind

But you don't need to find me

'Cause I've never been lost

I know just where I'm going

I know it by heart

Let me sing it for you now

What is written in the stars

A melody, so sweet

The song that carries on

But you don't need to find me

'Cause I've never been lost

Golden notes are calling

From the great beyond.

I kept my heart

In a golden cage

Until one day

It grew wings and escaped

From my window, I watched

As it fled away

I've kept my door locked

Since the day it escaped

I thought that I could keep it

If I never looked away

I thought that I could keep it

From a world where strong things break

I bet that I could catch it

And forever keep it in

I bet that I could catch it

And slowly clip its wings

It roams now in the open

Where everyone can see

I think of ways to catch it

And keep it locked away

If I knew where it was headed

I would not mind it free

But I'm sure I couldn't stand it

To see it lose its way

The heart

A strong and fragile thing

The things it holds

We can scarcely dream

Try to cage it

Or lock it away

A wild thing always

Finds a way to escape.

I was born as Capricorn

Rose in the evening sky

Eleven degrees out to the east

A time of endless sky

Once, time rolled like jelly

It crept its way in slow

It showed me far horizons

That glittered just like gold

I walked beside the ocean

And held my mother's hand

My soul was new inside my skin

Time was different then

Then one day, it shifted

Like someone closed a door

But how could I forget it

That place of open shore

I think of the beginning

When I had open eyes

I think of the beginning

When I had endless sky

I wish I could go back there

And trade this earthly gold

I wish I could go back there

To watch it all unfold

Dreams were just like memories

I felt them rushing in

Dreams were just like memories

They told me everything

Time, the rarest sunken treasure

Time, the darkest depths

Time is just a dream, I think

A dream that can't be kept.

You used to come calling

But now I hear nothing

Away from your graces

I feel myself falling

When I reached out my hand

You held it so tight

You kept my soul close

In a lantern of light

Once, I was gone

I had my great fall

But I heard golden music

That time I was lost

God, let it find me

That future I knew

I will open my eyes

And see clear to you

I wait for its golden notes

To call me

I wait for the day

That again

It will know me

From this sick bed, I'll rise

So hold close, your light

The future is calling

It rips through the night

When I open my eyes

The future will sing

Your love is like music

It plays on the wind.

Ancient history filled the air

The edges burned with light

She cast her only anchor

To the storm cloud's open eye

In landscapes of undying dreams

She collected ornamental leaves

A rip in time

A cosmic bleed

The rain pulled down the sky

She dipped her toe

Along the edge

Of the river's rushing shore

The water rushing by her now

Had passed her by before

The water was a mirror

A golden looking glass

It held the heat of many suns

And many anchors cast

Alive in the water

Were undying dreams

In the moment of grasping

They ceased to be

The ones that had crossed her

The ones that had crowned her

The ones that grew wild

From the tiniest seed

She lived by the water

To be nearer her dreams

The things she can't touch

The things she can see

She would carry them back

If only, she could

But a thing so wild

Would be misunderstood

With empty hands

She could never explain

What cannot be grasped

What cannot be named

She held great riches

She held the whole world

Her anchor of gold

Her eye in the storm.

You speak to me in color

When all the world is black

From high and lonely places

Your vision pulls me back

Language blooms in color

Violets, golds, and greens

Kaleidoscopic symmetries

Draped in earthly dreams

I came upon a vision

Once when I was lost

I came upon a vision

Shipwrecked upon the rocks

If my own eyes had not seen it

I could have looked away

In color, I see clearly

What words cannot explain

The vision burned so brightly

Word traveled on the wind

The masses came to see it

To hold it in their hands

Diviners holding science

Wielding sacred maths

With blinded eyes, they killed it

That vision on the sand

Language cannot capture

That which can't be named

They had no way to see it

Oh, how they tried, in vain

When navigation fails me

When I am lost at sea

I travel on the tradewinds

To shipwrecks far away

Many hands have lifted me

From drowning in the sea

Many eyes have met me

To gaze eternity

Do you think

That's what life is

A beautiful shipwreck

Visions of color

In the black

Churning sea

From the old

Sunken wreckage

Where all souls

Are shipwrecked

New life grows

From the bottomless sea.

I go down to the water

By the weeping willow tree

I think of you

With the sun in your eyes

The river runs on to the sea

Sing me a memory

Play me a song

Here at the crossroads, I stand

I'll follow you anywhere

I don't care if we're lost

We'll find the river again.

Born upon the shipwrecked coast
On the day of fools
She kept a light for stranded ghosts
And wandered in the wool

To keep from being lonely
She filled her head with dreams
She never lost a stranded thought
In the gathering

She liked to fall off edges
And never hit the ground
She liked to fall off edges
To wander in the clouds

She had no use for anchors
To hold her to this world
They would only trap her here
And bind, once more, her soul

She liked to fall off edges
And let her heart grow wings
Love was just like endless flight
A wish to fall again

She fell in love with shipwrecked ghosts
And gathered strands of wool
For every heart is made the same
The brave heart and the fool

She found her way through darkness
Through lifetimes lost at sea
For souls who have not shipwrecked yet
The rocks, they cannot see.

I'll be gone before the rooster crows

I can see the open road

There's nowhere else I want to go

I can see the open road

Take all of my troubles

And shove them in the ground

I don't need them

Walking around

I bequeath my possessions

To the holy lord

My pockets will be empty

When I reach the golden doors

I'm gonna wash my mind of this earthly mud

I can see the open road

I'm gonna see the stars when I look up

I can see the open road

Take all of my sorrows

And put them on a train

Where I'm going

There ain't no rain

I'm gonna sleep under

The willows

And burn away the days

No dark clouds

Will keep the sunshine away

I'm gonna reach for the sky and fill my cup

I can see the open road

I'm gonna thank the lord when it opens up

I can see the open road

What I have to gain

Is nothing more to lose

Where I'm going

There ain't no blues

Only golden sky

Shining on my back

And the holy grail

Down the railroad tracks.

I come from the valley

That holds up the sky

The clouds in my head

The rain in my eyes

I come from the valley

Of gathering storms

We draw closer to heaven

With each passing storm

The wise, weary mountains

Hold up the sky

I stand alongside them

Lonely and tired

Down in the valley

A soul can get caught

On the old fire roads

The miles get lost

Down in the valley

We all walk alone

Our fates grow nearer

With each passing storm

We have learned not to fight it

That which comes from the sky

For God's spade is sorrow

And the ground, it is ripe

We are just like the weather

Tangled and wild

Down in the lowlands

We hold up the sky.

We come from the pines

From the low country dirt

Where the water runs red

And the fire trees grow

From the earth, we pull iron

From barrens and bogs

We drink from the sky

When the summer rains fall

Pitch pines bleed

Onto white sugar sand

The deer and the vulture

Reign over this land

Ash is our history

Our beginning and end

Angels and devils

Circle this land

They come down as lightning

As thunder and wind

They go up as ash

Where the fire trees stand

On the ash, travel memories

Of the earth sunken in

What falls down the hole

Shall crawl out again

It comes out at night

It howls on the wind

It keeps to the woods

Where the fire trees stand

Our plants, they drink blood

Our sand drinks the rain

We know that which dies

Will come back again

In a land that is barren

We've learned to breath fire

Our devils grow wings

Our angels grow tired

That which has fallen

Shall rise up again

We come from the iron

Where the fire trees stand.