The Gathering
								   Nighttime Birds


	ON MOST SURFACES (INUÏT) 

The frost hits me in the eye and wakes me 
these are blury winters and I cannot see 
I walk into the white light of the snow when the sun comes 
I break it with my shadow which tales me where I go 
The frost hits me in the eye and wakes me 
I am the snow falling down on you 
I tear up your face with my frost 
And make you run to somewhere warm 
When I come I see you get away 
I burst out about your emptyness 
The frost hits me in the eye and wakes me 
these are blury winters and I cannot see 


    CONFUSION 

False eyes are staring disrespectfully and untrue 
the burden that we are carrying is way too much for me and you 
Sometimes it is better to lay don't you think? 
I'm evaporating, a veil of smoke is what I am 
your thoughts will take on their way to grow old and to be certain 
Sometimes it is better to lay don't you think? 


	THE MAY SONG 

I'm waiting for your hands to fold around my wrist 
I'm mellowing in warm grass and the scent of you I've missed 
And blue is representing the draft in my heart 
I'm wandering through thin skies and the transparent air I've missed 
Pale is my face you might want to colour while I breathe 
I'm following large drops of rain with my eyes on the sight of you I've 
missed 
Pale is my face you might want to colour while I breathe 


	THE EARTH IS MY WITNESS

Mother earth look at her closely 
she looks at her baby and she sighs 
the slight breathing pause that she takes it builds her and makes her strong 
She refuses to give her up and we close our eyes 
Her hands touch the round stomach and feel the kick 
The eyes that have seen so much cry with the water she starts to rinse her 
face 
And refuses to give her up  And we close our eyes  And you close 
your eyes 


	NEW MOON DIFFERENT DAY

I'm at the waterside, my cold feet are numb 
and I follow my dream, I want to cross, I want to get inside 
The clouds make a circle on the soil that I'm on 
and I trust what surrounds me. I want to cross 
I break the storm through the clouds 
I'm on the other side. I watch time pass and I see, I have to go along 
with the water that will lead the way 
and I feel, the rain on my head 
and the drops hit me one by one 
I break the storm through the clouds 


	THIRD CHANCE

Fear and sweat, my muscles ache 
I smile but it's just a fake, I fade away 
it troubles me, what you're gonna say 
just a day away and you will be here to stay 
I wait and I wait and what i really hate 
is the panic that stops me from breathing 
my knees hit the floor and I panic more 
until you open my door 


	KEVIN'S TELESCOPE 

His hands hide inside a sleeve 
and little feet play with the ground beneath him 
while up in the sky is where he wants to be 
Time will fly and the wind plays with him 
the night will give him its charm 
While he walks home his head's up in a cloud 
he feels his pores fill up with fresh air 
and there is no doubt that one day he will be 
where the eye of his telescope has already been 
Night will pass but he's a lot faster 
no one can do him any harm 


	NIGHTTIME BIRDS

Their ways are open, they spread as their wings 
they want to be certain of a warm surrounding 
When they fly through the night as beautiful 
nighttime birds 
The warm wind picks them up 
When they fly through the night as beautiful 
nighttime birds 


	SHRINK

To feel this great urge, to hold and embrace you 
I slowly dry out, I shrink and shrink until I'm gone 
nothing to make out of me 
oh what the hell went wrong 
my heart gets pulled out into your direction 
it's no use, you have forsaken me