Stolen Land Lyrics

I've seen a high cairn kissed by holy wind Seen a mirror pool cut by golden fins Seen alleys where they hide the truth of cities The madders blessing you miles to accept without pi...Read Full Lyrics

Drift along Hear the gravel crackle Butterflies Shades of the eternal dancer God has buttered the land with sunlight Sunlight Corn grows high Like a tall watusi Katydid Hums a mono...Read Full Lyrics

All day the mountains rose behind the veil of smoke from burning fields And road dust dyeing black skin bronze and the road rolling like a rough sea It's quiet now, just crickets a...Read Full Lyrics

These shoes have walked some strange streets Stranger still to come Sometimes the prayers of strangers Are all that keeps them from Trying to stay static Something even death can't...Read Full Lyrics

There's a broad river winding Through this African lowland The moon is held up orange and big See it raise its hand And the last ferry's pulling out With no place left to stand For...Read Full Lyrics

Something jewelled slips away Round the next bend with a splash Laughing at the hands I hold out Only air within their grasp All you can do is praise the razor For the fineness of ...Read Full Lyrics

Isn't it hard To be the one who has to give advice? Isn't it hard To be the strong one? I see the skyline blurred through the plastic on your back screen door Not unlike the faces ...Read Full Lyrics

Sable sky anoints the earth with crystal 'neath my foot Wide-eyed, white-plumed owl plays upon his magic flute Silver-circled moonlight cresting waves of shadow blue And the river ...Read Full Lyrics

Strikes across the frontier and strikes for higher wage Planet lurches to the right as ideologies engage Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights What did they think the poli...Read Full Lyrics

They turned their backs I made it too hard Every place they touched me Is a laceration now Sometimes a wind comes out of nowhere And knocks you off your feet And look, see my tears...Read Full Lyrics