Music and lyrics by J Stephen Roberts

 

Floor that I walked

Back to the room

With the light outside

Sinking too soon and

I saw where you moved

Hands on the bark

That’s so dead outside

Green at the heart

Scent of the wind

Fast as the day

It’s just one more time

One other way and I

Watch what I do

Lit by the sky

And the night is coming

 

Pull of the wind

I’m following

With your fragments all

Scattered and free and I’m

Taking you there

Holding your hand

When you touch the stone

Hear in the land

Words chiseled deep

Filling with rain

We subtract the dates

Get sixty-eight, till the

Pull is too strong

Leads us away

And we know from inside

 

Chorus:

Cistern deep

Night rain water

As I bleed

I grow stronger

Still as I hunt through the brush till I’m holding the life

Washing the blade in the creek and I’m deep in the night

Somewhere inside

 

Rain through the roof

Letting it fall

And we leave this house

Dead leaves and all

Your dress is soaked

Mud on your feet

When I turn my gaze

Weeps in the trees

Where did I leave

Notebook I filled

With a solid year

Lit it, it lived

Staring at me

Smiling at me

And your hands are rising

 

(Chorus)