The Gift 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

Rain rings trash can bells And what do you know My alley becomes a cathedral Eyes can be archways To enter or leave by Vacuums replaced by a crystal Jesus don't let Toronto take my...Read Full Lyrics

Tie me at the crossroads when I die Hang me in the wind 'til I get good and dry And the kids that pass can scratch their heads And say "who was that guy?" Tie me at the crossroads ...Read Full Lyrics

Endless silver Wave forms crash in Sea's too big to fit in my heart Nothings too big to fit in my heart Seas come, seas go Where they stood deserts flow Time's too big to fit in t...Read Full Lyrics

Rising like lightspill from this sleeping town Like the light in a lover's eyes Rising from the hearts of the sleepers all around All those dreamers trying to light the sky Burning...Read Full Lyrics