Great Lake Swimmers

the echo to your yell the ripple to your dive the currents under your wave electricity flows through me i send it out to you we were charged with the founding poles of a million years a million years before us have trembled in their fears never saw y

The line runs through like a train in a book Or meters underwater, ending with a hook Sways in the air when there's wind enough to lift The fine ones are boundaries when there is a rift I'm just pulling on a line, on a line Oh I'm just pulling on a l

Song sung blue Everybody knows one Song sung blue Every garden grows one Me and you are subject to the blues now and then But when you take the blues and make a song You sing them out again Sing 'em out again Song sung blue Weeping like a willow Song

I was lost in the lakes And the shape that your body makes That your body makes And the mountains said I could find you here They whisper the snow and the leaves in my ear I traced my finger along your trails Your body was the map I was lost in there

There is a light in you, I have fallen into. There is a light in you, I have fallen into, Fallen in too. Put all your weapons away. I won't fight you just to spite you. Put all your weapons away, And your mask, it's failing anyway, Falling away. Stop

You see by the lines on my hands I've been carrying a heavy load You follow them across my palms Where they run like roads Won't you come and read the future, turn it on Won't you tell me how I will not feel so lonely And read the patterns on my skin

The Knife A point's so sharp that it cannot feel And it has two sides, but which one's real? The net thrown over and pulled from the school To wake up in the hands of fools Should have known better in daylight's burn That restless depths hold darkene