The yellow sun is sinking down
The dew rests on the leaves
The silver moon is shimmering
In heavenly sleep, she dreams

This life I found is beautiful
Like the rolling summer sea
Standing on the shifting sand
The waves wash over me

The night birds, west, are flying
The waves crash on the shore
I have the strangest feeling
Like I've been here before

This life I found is beautiful
These things, you'd never dream
There's silver thread like spider's web
Connecting you to me

The dew drops quiver
As the morning light scatters
The spider, she wakes from her sleep
The dawn shines in her mirrored eyes
The sun returns effortlessly

My days, I filled, with worry
In the time before I knew
Before I felt the silver thread
Connecting me to you

Heaven shines down
Through the lumbering clouds
I look up through the trees
My thoughts, they crumble into sand
I surrender them back to the sea

The night birds, west, are flying
The waves crash on the shore
I have the strangest feeling
Like I've been here before

At dusk there is a violet light
Where the ocean meets the sky
It melts, and turns into silver
Tying my soul to the sky

The fears I kept, they buried me
Like an anchor, dragged me down
Far away from the sight of land
I fought until I drowned

But in my time of drowning
I looked up through the clouds
Breathing underwater
The silver thread came down

Awoken from the dream of life
Alive, where the sky meets the sea
The moon, she sleeps in heavenly peace
And the sun returns effortlessly.

I can see the sky is slipping
I can feel the red, hot earth
I can hear my rabbit heart
Calling in the big black birds

Wild horses, like thunder rolling
Pulling in the mighty wind
I can feel my senses burning
The sand beneath me, sinking in

I stood on the edge of the desert
With nothing in my arms but a prayer
The raven, she called out an answer
It was gone like a moth in the air

There are spirits out here in the desert
I hear them on nights with no wind
They lead me in different directions
They follow me into my dreams

So I walk with the heart of a lion
For I know it's my time to be brave
The wild horses are coming
On the heels of the hurricane

And even though my hands are tied
I'm alive when my skin feels the rain
And even though my heart runs wild
I trust that it still knows the way

On the road, I see the beauty
On the road, I feel the pain
I sleep under the evening stars
In this lonely, wild place

My rabbit heart is beating fast
Red embers lift into the sky
There are no other souls in the desert tonight
Just the rabbit, the lion, and I

The stars are shooting low tonight
To remind me why I came
To wear the heart of a lion
When my rabbit heart can't be brave

First there was nothing, a distant heartbeat
The eastern forest, so dark
The angel rose from the western desert
Crashing thunder and splintering rock

No birds could be heard in the forest
To the south, they had all flown away
I stared at the cold eyes of winter
Locked in, I could not look away

Hope can get lost in the forest
In these dark days, the sun pulls away
I feel that which grows unfamiliar
The night bleeds into the day

To the western world, I am headed
Where the lost gods live and breath
In the west, the light is growing
A darkness descends in the east

My gaze, it is fixed on the mountains
On the light of the campfire glow
I'm not the only one searching out here
When the snow begins to fall

It paints the rock white in the highlands
On the peaks of the lost mountain roads
Crows circle high in the gold dust sky
And we let the fire grow

A new sun will rise on the desert
And our gaze, it will lift ever-high
Tonight, we will lay down our armor
And hold our hearts to the sky

Though winter descends on the desert
These mountains hold riches of gold
On the place where the earth fell to ruin
The eleventh angel rose

Though the winter holds us captive
Our hearts still remember the spring
New life begins in the darkness
First nothing, then a distant heartbeat.

Saint Francis watches over me
When winter comes my way
When the sky grows cold and hollow
And the trees turn bare and gray

I walk beside the ocean
And by the water, find him there
He ushers in the blue sky
The white birds fill the air

I feel him in the north woods
Where the oldest hemlocks grow
Where the shadows haunt the highlands
On lost miles of mountain roads

He sends to me the bluebirds
When the cold months take the light
The red bursts of the cardinal
When the earth is frozen white

In springtime, small pink flowers
Grow around the old stone graves
In all things, there is meaning
In darkness, doubt, and pain

He lights a candle in the dark
And speaks my truest name
His hands, they hold the brightest star
On winter's longest day

Dusk begins to settle
The yellow birds fade with the sun
The daylight, it is leaving me
The winter has begun

For now, the roses have withered
But the spring will return them to life
The mourning dove is singing
Lamenting the day's last light

Saint Francis watches over me
When the darkness grows so tall
When winter covers over me
I see the brightest star.

When I entered this waking life
A dark lotus bloomed from the center
Carnival music filled the air
And all that I had was the water

You stood there at the edge of light
Making your peace with the sea
Your eyes were the earth of the forest floor
Growing beautiful branches of green

When you came to this waking life
The earth took its first breath of spring
I saw you wrapped up in the sun
The forest was never so green

Our paths, they came together
Like the branches of a tree
Two streams, two rivers, converging
At the edge of the green apple sea

Sometimes it seems the darkness will win
It's there when I sleep, in my deepest of dreams
I feel your hand reaching down to me
And I see the sun again

For when the ocean pulls me in
The sun, it stays away
But that is what you are, my love
The feeling that I might be saved

High tide sweeps the land away
From underneath our feet
We swim as the sun is melting away
Gold and blue, becoming green

I saw you at the edge of light
Making your peace with the sea
Your eyes were brown like the forest floor
Growing beautiful branches of green

Two lonely souls at day's last light
Making our peace with the ocean
I saw the sun come from your eyes
When I was down at the bottom.

I made my peace with God today

Swimming in the ocean

The sun bowed down in fractured rays

I knelt on the sand at the bottom

One day, when my name is gone

And this time is long forgotten

I'll return to the beach as the summer swell

The waves that the surfers find God on

My thoughts will crumble into sand

For another soul to stand on

I won't be kept by the curse of dry land

I'll find my peace deep in the canyons

The sea will take my troubles away

And turn them into sky

Traveling like a white-winged bird

Disappearing over the horizon

I'll find freedom looking up

Getting drunk by the sight of the moon

The morning sun will call to me

Rising up behind the white dunes

I will have fins, and wings for to fly

When I go floating away

I'll return as the little white butterflies

In the gardens on midsomer days

Orange wings, backlit by the sun

In October, when all of the tourists are gone

The dog days will fade as the goldenrod blooms

The last monarch will lift off from the dunes

I'll make my peace with God that day

Diving in the canyons

Pushing up the winter swell

For another soul to find God on.

The world is a runaway train, my love
Don't try to call it back
The storm is building miles from shore
The gold mixing in with the black

Don't go searching for rain, sweet one
For it will come to you
Do you remember the sky in the summertime
There's a feeling to the blue

Your eyes, they look so far away
I can feel my feet on the moon
On earth, our souls are searching
The gold mixing in with the blue

We come from something far away
I know you feel it, too
The waves are breaking close to shore
My heart beats next to you

I'm loneliest without you here
When I stare at the moon
I go out, searching for rain
In the city of heavenly blues

I'm walking as the rain comes down
My bare feet on the moon
I see you standing near the shore
The red mixing in with the blue

I always wondered where you'd go
When your eyes looked far away
The waves are breaking close to shore
From where we stand in space

The moonlight here, it lays me bare
The surface of me, cracked
But that is where the light gets in
The gold mixing in with the black

Looking down from a dizzying height
The earth looks like a storm
A dot spinning out in the darkness
A blue world that's hardly been born

I remember the sky in the summertime
The feeling of the blue
But for what I hold in my heart
I know it all seems doomed

But all of this was made for us
There's beauty in it, too
New life grows from broken ground
The gold mixing in with the blue

Don't judge the world by its flaws, my love
New colors come with the rain
Where the surface is hopelessly cracked
Is where the light gets in.

I heard the streams of music
Being carried on the air
The honeysuckle was opening
As I sat there on the stairs

It was the first time that I heard you
That I felt your golden wings
There are some things you can only feel
Some things you can only dream

I feel like I am falling
From a crash in outer space
And I cannot help but wonder
If I'm really from this place

I am just a passenger
In a land of many gods
I find small openings in my dreams
But when I wake, I'm lost

Like Alice in her wonderland
Like Charlotte in her web
Nothing here can feel as real
As the worlds inside my head

There must be some way out of here
If only through a dream
Underneath the bedroom floor
A trapdoor opening

The nighttime ocean pulls me in
The wind, it shifts direction
The lonely glow of the fishing boats
Haunt the dark horizon

Like my grandfather, I'm an edge walker
We walk the space in between
Spinning the thread between day and night
Between the waking world and a dream

I know I will forget you
Like every time before
Until I hear a certain song
Or see a certain door

On clear nights, when the stars are bright
I'll watch the heavens move
I'll find the way that music's made
And sing it back to you

My feet, they sink into the sand
I feel your golden wings
There are some things you can only feel
Some things you can only dream

The sun is rising in the east
The honeysuckle, opening
I sit upon the stairs, and drift
While other worlds are forming.

The red sun sets over the western desert
The land here lives and breaths
They say that magic is not of this earth
But this is where it was conceived

I sow three seeds into the ground
Under the blood red sun
The old ones spoke of mountains
With nothing but light inside them

With the wolf, I wander
With the snake, I shed my skin
Coyote calls my soul away
I search, but never find him

The land here is a battlefield
There are forces of darkness and light
The old ones spoke of giant gods
Speaking thunder and beaming in light

Night can make the blood run cold
The darkness keeps close to the ground
My armor is a humble heart
When the last burning ember goes out

Such forces are too strong to fight
But fools have always tried
Hubris makes the wind grow cold
And darkens the angry sky

Duendes use the wind and the rain
To call the soul away
You must let the wind blow through you
Or else it will blow you away

Coyote is a trickster
Rabbit fears the moon
Owl keeps me company
On nights when the wind chills me through

This place holds many spirits
Past what the eyes can see
Things we've lost the touch to feel
And lost the will to see

In this age of tangled amnesia
We are prisoners of the sun
Our consciousness like spider's web
So delicate, brittle, and torn

The land has never changed here
It's we who have forgotten
We wear the weight of a previous age
Like a snake in a cave, never molting

I sow three seeds into the ground
Under the blood red sun
The old ones spoke of mountains
With nothing but light inside them

The red sun sets over the western desert
The night is coming soon
My armor is a humble heart
When the cold wind chills me through.

I am the flood, the rain when it comes
The pull of the river, the depth of the mud
I see dark clouds when I look up
And God is never big enough

Nothing else can save me now
I wrap myself up in the clouds
From my hands, the lightning comes
And thunder keeps the brave ones out

I never felt the rays of sun
Until I could not see
I never knew I was alive
Until the flood, it took me

I imagined hope to have strong wings
Bright eyes and golden feathers
But in the realms of black and gray
Such creatures don't outlast the weather

Instead, it felt like spider's web
The only thing left in dark corners
When all the stars have disappeared
And a cold wind blows in the darkness

The spider saw me though her eyes
And forgave me for my loneliness
For in the realms of black and gray
She knows how to outlast the darkness

For she who has so many eyes
Can see eternity
And where the darkness meets the light
She spins so gracefully

Staring at the nighttime sky
I think the light is winning
For even when there's no starlight
Small hopes, from silk, she's spinning

Hope is feeling the sun return
Not knowing you had lost it
For in the realms of black and gray
We are creatures who outlast the darkness.

I thought I heard the angels
Calling out for me
I thought I heard the river
Crying for the sea

I stand where the forest turns to sand
The ocean takes a deep breath in
The night, so black
The moon, so dim
The seabirds, all asleep

I stand where the river runs wild and clear
My feet on the edge of the last frontier
I'm pulled by a dream that came to me
One night when I was asleep

The ocean pulls
The earth, it quakes
The dam inside my soul must break
All of my days will distill to one drop
Into one point of light in the dark

Such beautiful dreams, I hold in my hands
Where I am going, there is no land
No curse can lay upon me
When I am out at sea

No grave can keep my body down
No more, I'll sink
No more, I'll drown
Thunder rumbles in the far away clouds
The seabirds stir from their sleep

I stand in front of the swallowing night
Choking on the last piece of light
Wounded by the darkness
And blinded by the sun

The lightning comes from my fingertips
The rain pours from my eyes
I come up on the edge of God
The light that I lost deep inside

My dream begins to flutter
I open my hand, and she flies
Through the storm, over black water
Into the dark ocean, she dives

She belongs to the water
She is a piece of the sky
She sings as she flies against the wind
And when she is happy, she cries

I come up on the edge of God
The ocean pulls me in
I release the dream, touching her wings
I know she will be back again

Such beautiful dreams, I hold in my hands
The ocean takes a deep breath in
There is a light that never goes out
In the darkest part of the sea.