There are some things that I need to leave behind
The crumpled sheets I’ve laid in all these years.
A message flickers on the ‘phone,
I wonder who it is.
And then I think that I don’t really care.

I know that there are things I’ve said that I cannot undo
And people I have bothered
And then left as I passed through.
They signal to me now and then
In pictures and in songs
I haven’t really moved that far
But I still feel I’ve gone

And when the boats have scattered to their places on the sea
And when the trays are full again and everyone can feed,
There is a part of me that hopes to be there everyday
I know I felt like that the last time that you went away

I put the records in their sleeves and pull the curtain down
And drink to soft oblivion when no-one is around.
I pile the dishes on the side, I crawl into bed,
the softest wind is blowing in, I will soon be dead.

And when the boats have scattered to their places on the sea
And when the trays are full again and everyone can feed,
There is a part of me that hopes to be there everyday
I know I felt like that the last time that you went away

I know that there are things I've said that I cannot undo
It is the way that people change
That we cannot get through.
Ghosts are knocking on the walls, once there was the sky;
Reason one; we carry on, our wings will soon be dry

The lines converge and they disappear
They never hang around.
I am left with nothing more
A tiny patch of ground.

Mother calls out to a child
‘there isn’t time to play’
connections are what matter here
takes your breath away

To see the sky and the magic of the days
How the distant milky-way never seems to change
And if I was a better man I’d surely learn to pray
For you and me, its what we need

The rain and the roads are one
They’re going the same way
I catch the wind that blows the seed
And never seems to stay

The lover of the idle time
He will regret the sound
Connecting to another world
We had never found

To see the sky and the magic of the days
How the distant milky-way never seems to change
And if I was a better man I’d surely learn to pray
For you and me, its what we need

Along the coast the waves are breaking
They’re closing up the beach
Homes are disappearing
A nd the ropes are out of reach

A boy will play along the dunes
And he will never be afraid
Gulls are calling out to him
‘Sherbert’
‘Lemonade’

Its what we need

On a fence someone had hung a coyote carcass
Which rotted and shrank, in the afternoon heat.
And the valley moist from green hoses
Strewn across the sweetened land.
Quieted for night

In the bedroom the dark pulls the images
Sun sinking, elevation.
Groves of orange blossom rising up
Filtering out the desert dust.
Quieted for night

Copyright Kate Wilson 2006
Lyrics used by kind permission

For a moment for a flicker of time
Where have you been all of my life?
This was your voice
This was your smile
This was the last day, but you are alive

So dream, come to me dream
Take the day from me
Across the fields, beneath the beam
Our worlds are apart, we’re falling

For a moment in a whisper I hear
Where have you been throughout the years?
This was your silence
This was your sign
This was the last time I saw you alive

So dream, come to me dream
Take the day from me
Across the fields, beneath the beam
Our worlds are apart, we’re falling

You are everywhere,
You grow in the world outside my window
In the ditches and in the hedgerows
In the silent winter snow

So dream
Come to me dream ,take the day from me
Brothers and sisters we must come clean
Our worlds are apart
We’re falling

The autumn light is bathing you beneath the sullen tree
The light beyond your swollen eyes is all I can see
Is it right to be the one to find you living like this?
Leaves me empty like the ditches that are crying out for the rain

If I could pull the trigger
If I could raise the spike
Blackness would be comforting and peace would come at last
If I could keep eye on you and settle you quite still
I know, I will never have the courage to kill

I am one of them
I am one of them
Belonging somewhere after all
We live among the leaves
We live behind the screens and here
I do not hear the screams

I love to hear the rain falling
I love to hear the rain falling
Flattening the fur, flattening the fur

The autumn light is bathing you beneath the sullen tree
The light beyond your swollen eyes is all I can see
I hate to be the one to turn my back on you like this
Leaves me empty like the ditches that are crying out for the rain

If I could pull the trigger
If I could raise the spike
Blackness would be comforting and peace would come at last
If I could keep eye so keen and settle you quite still
I know, I will never have the courage to kill

I am one of them
I am one of them
Belonging somewhere after all
We live among the leaves
We live behind the screens and here
I do not hear the screams

I love to hear the rain falling
I love to hear the rain falling
Flattening the fur, flattening the fur

There was a boy and I had seen his face before
I will remember him from the back of his head
When he walked right out the door

There was a girl you will have heard my name before
You will remember me from the smile on my face
When he walked right out the door

Those were the days when I used to cry
When I lived in never never land:
I’ll never let this happen again to me
I’ll never let this happen again.

You touched every part of my life
You touched every part of my life
Like everything would then turn out alright
And then you would kiss me goodbye

So take what you have
And then leave me alone
All roads leading nowhere now lead me back home
And I’m glad that you have gone

You touched every part of my life
You touched every part of my life
Like everything would then turn out alright
And then you would kiss me goodbye

God of ice,his hands on me
In that dead time, in that dead way

O life all around me
Got the gold, now give it to me

No scraping out no cutting back
I keep the seeds inside my mouth
Incubate, sometime later
We will watch it grow

I’ll let you down in my own way
Scratch ticket, throw it away
Keep the crosses in your fingers
Good god of mine, my loving lingers

God of earth his hands on me
In that spring day in that springtime

O life all around me
Got the gold, now give it to me

No scraping out no cutting back
I keep the seeds inside my mouth
Incubate, sometime later
We will watch it grow

My, how we have grown,
And aren’t you glad,
To say goodbye to the past
Welcome in a friend
Who holds your hands together at your chest

Treasure you until the end
Treasure you today and everyday
When I am not strong
When I am weak
In the face of god

My, isn’t it still
Balancing the drink on the arm of your chair
November once again
Pulls in the day
Turn the early light on

Treasure you until the end
Treasure you today and everyday
I am a good man
When I am weak
In the face of god

The beasts still carry their burden
See their silhouette on the hill
Now just a shadow grows long
         Hear me
         Tell me
That you hear me
         Tell me

When you went away, I remember you told me
Don’t be afraid of the ghosts
Don’t be afraid when the night is at play
Don’t be afraid of the ghosts

Hold on to the stone
Hold on to the stone
That floats

We both woke today
We both met the dawn
Opportunities were many for us all

I can only stand here now
And look at your door
And I wonder where the years go

There is a sense of newness in the air
There is a hopeful singer
Singing songs somewhere
The wing of darkness folded still
I wonder if we are dreaming still

Only I will see the morning
Only I will see the morning
Only I will see the morning
Only I will see the morning

There is warmth I can feel entering
There is a reason for this room that I am measuring
I don’t think that you were alone
The curtains opened in your home
Until sleep
Unto sleep

Only I will see the morning
Only I will see the morning
Only I will see the morning
Only I will see the morning

Given the choice I would not go there tomorrow
I suspect it’s said in quiet moments the whole world over

I do not wish to spend another minute of my life
Woven inside the fabric of my obligations

The allure of the things which seems so great
And which would obviously begin to fade
HAS!

I care not now nor did I really ever
For you
Them
It
Or whatever
Let your hair down boy
The future is uncertain
Security counts for nothing
         Just that monthly feeling
         Keeps you from fleeing

Given the choice I’d find that little piece of courage
I would flip this all over
Find something new and ALIVE!
I could map out explorations to the moon
Or make peg-men and paint them
All blue or turquoise

I care not now nor did I really ever
For you
Them
It
Or whatever
Let your hair down boy
The future is uncertain
Security counts for nothing
         Just that monthly feeling
         Keeps you from fleeing

I went down to the river
To hear the water running in the dark
The late September winds
Trying to blow me back

I thought of you
And thought of me
And I couldn’t find the words
They come and go
Year after year
Year after year
We are like the birds

Will we find our way through the coming months?
When all the world is dark
And will we see the springtime
Will our lives always be apart?
Another thing I meant to tell you
Was about the past
         But I don’t know if I should

I went back to the woodland
Where I spent my youth
And I cant believe the way in which it changed
I remember all my old friends
O! I need them now
They come and go
Year after year
Year after year they still come around

Will we find our way through the coming months?
When all the world is dark
And will we see the springtime
Will our lives always be apart?
Another thing I meant to tell you
Was about the past
         But I don’t know if I should