This Is Where We Meet

Tramp on the root and lean on the bark Worn as a boot the fingers work hard He leans on the tree by the path that he laid The house that he built, the wall that he made When he tried to make, he tried to make a start Stood like a fighter leant into f

Locked in a dream I found I test my mind's ability At sleeping through the sound Of engines running near to me Won't turn down for you And on the ocean bed This tireless whale that waits for war With men inside its head There from the day they closed

Step off the train my friend Before you reach the bend There'll be no turning back If you come off this track It's true I can't ignore These echoes at my door No season for your word My frosted senses blurred Melts fill you slowly And brooks start to

For fifty and nine he swam along just fine A mind that's trained to see Always would know what goes on inside Goes on in me And one day he fell As deep as the well And now a stranger seems to dwell inside So I asked him how this stranger that bears I

Take me to the bay in darkness Through this month of nights in one They burned oil in the starless Pitch of night, awaiting And you're born Dark gave way to dawn They said you were a pearl Found there on the earth As you grew to a girl And she faded

See all you know And know all you are But are you what you you thought you were When you saw you were wanted Warning, warning Give all you can But they came and they took Did you ever feel, ever feel wanted? Warning, warning Turn away You had to leav

Sold The promises a land would bring to me But nothing grows when nothing sows And so it was the land deserted me And you hit the side of my face with your right And as pretty a sight as can be Were stars in the skies and birds in my eyes 'Til the fl

Say it's a riot riot Say it's a golden night Oh it's a starry one To not be sleeping right, right? I never found my eye For making hours slip by While I lay turning While I lay turning If I turn upon myself Don't try, try to try to help I see the swe

Too late to understand Too soon to hold a hand I sometimes think she's living in a dream Tell all the pretty girls Their minds in other worlds I've only seen it on the silver screen A line that's taken from a page Turns into something you would say Y