The leafless tree looked like a brain
The birds within were all the thoughts and desires within me
Hoppin' around from branch to branch, or snug in their nests listenin' in

An eagle came over the horizon and shook the branches with its sight
The softer thoughts: starlings, finc

America! America! America! America!
You are so grand and gold, golden
Oh I wish I was deep in america tonight

America! America!
I watch David Letterman in Australia
Oh america!
You are so grand and gold, golden
I wish I was on the next flight to America

Captai

There grows a weed, looks like a flower
Looks like baby's breath on a mirror

My girl and i rushed atop the altar
The sacrifice was made
It was not easy undertaking
The roots gripped soft like a living grave

Oh young girl at the wedding
Baby's breath in her hair

Some people are a sickness on this land
They're killing, they're taking, they're stealing
Whatever they can
Anything, anything, anything that is not bolted down
Your life, your money, your heart, your faith, your bike
Anything that is not bolted down
Learn from the animal

She was dancing so hard
She danced herself into a diamond
Dancing all by herself
Dancing all by herself
And not minding

Doing the the thing as she dreamed it
Doing the the thing as she dreamed it

Her skin was sky blue
Her skin was sky blue
Under the lights

The real people went away
But I'll find a better word, someday
Leaving only me and my dreams
My cattle and a resonator

I drove all the beast down right under your nose
The lumbering footloose power
The bull and the rose
Don't touch them don't try to hurt them
My

Working through death's pain

Last night I swear I felt your touch
Gentle and warm
The hair stood on my arms
How, how, how?

Show me the way, show me the way, show me the way
To shake a memory

I flipped my forelock, I twitched my withers, I reared and bucked
I

It's time to put God away

Damnin' the children
Makin' the ill just a little more sick

It's time to put God away
(I put God away)

This is the end of faith, no more must I strive
To find my peace, to find my peace in the light
This is the end of faith, no more mus

I'm standing in a field
A field of questions
As far as the eye can see
Is this what it means to be free?
Or is this what it means to belong to the free?

To be free in bad times and good
To belong to being derided for things i don't believe
And lauded for things i di

When you were blind, you touch things for their shape
Have faith in wordless knowledge
Well i can tell you about the river
Or we could just get in
The body the rain made of our days before we knew
We are swimming in the river of the rains of our days before we knew
And it

I started out in search of ordinary things
How much of a tree bends in the wind
I started telling the story without knowing the end

I used to be darker, then I got lighter, then I got dark again
Something to be seen was passing over and over me
Well it seemed like the routi

I looked all around
It was not written down
And so I'll tell you now
I will always love you
My friend

Now I'm not saying we're cut from the same tree
But like two pieces of the gallows
The pillar and the beam
Like two pieces of the gallows
We share a common

One fine morning
I'm gonna ride out
Yeah, one fine morning
I'm gonna ride out

Just me and the skeleton crew
We're gonna ride out in a country kind of silence
We're gonna ride out in a country silence
Yeah one fine morning

Yeah it's all coming back to me now

It's never easy to say goodbye
To the faces
So rarely do we see another one
So close and so long

I asked the room if I'd said enough
No one really answered
They just said, "Don't go, don't go"
Well all this leaving is neverending

I kept hoping for one more que

She lay beside me like a branch from a tender willow tree
I was as still, as still as a river could be
When a rococo zephyr swept over her and me

She watched the water ripple ripple ripple ripple light
Light watched the water ripple ripple ripple ripple she
I did some kind

There's sap in the trees if you tap 'em
there's blood on the seas if you map 'em
Christian, if you see your poppa
Tell him I love him
He taught me to love in the wild and
Fight in the gym
He taught me the bottle gives birth to the cup
And you won't get hurt if you jus

I'd like to touch you
But I've forgotten how
And said I didn't need you
But look at me now
Sometime in the summer
When we're lying in the breeze
The breeze will kill me
The breeze will kill me
I tried to follow the path that you're on
Something in me is stubbo

The wheel has turned one full circle
Time for my meal of wood
To make my home lord
In a stable spoke lord
Inside a turning wheel would be good
To make my home lord
In a stable spoke lord
Inside a turning wheel bound for good

A woodbee tries to find purchase

Somewhere between the wind and the dove
Lies all I sought in you
And when the wind just dies, when the wind just dies
And the dove won't rise
From your window sill

Well I cannot tell you
Which way it would be
If it was this way too
For the wind and the dove

Too many birds in one tree
Too many birds in one tree
And the sky is full of black and screaming leaves
The sky is full of black and screaming

And one more bird
Then one more bird
And one last bird
And another

One last black bird without a place to land
On