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
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