I was here before you
This water dance I do
I've done a million times before
For years upon years
Before your dust was formed
So just why do you chase me
Shadows loom above me
Trace my every move
I don't dare surface
I'm running out of air
Why can't we
Why can't we both live here
You wear your funky fragrance
You slice my belly open
Then you rub me in
I hope you will remember
A killer swims alone
Why can't we
Why can't we both live here
Without hands or feet or soul
I travel on from pole to pole
A thousand miles I go in fear
And you won't see me around here
I'm hiding
I wonder how it really feels
To thrust yourself into the kill
I ask myself what I have done
To cause this fight now that you've won
I'm hiding
On the run
Basically I'm harmless
My bellowing is music
Heard across the ocean floor
I talk to my friends
Could be you
So come right out, admit it
You're threatened by my size
The deep mystery
I feel like the Creator
Misunderstood
Why can't we
Why can't we both live here
Chorus
My little way out
Talking to the moon
My little way out
I hope you hear me soon
You're a light that's in the dark
Sending signals to my heart
A satellite suspended in the sky
A twenty-four foot wave
May roll me over
Or come crashing down
Upon my bow portside
Relaxing my grip
On my four leaf clover
I send up an s.o.s.
Into the sky
Chorus
Morning offers me
A vast horizon
Reckoning the quiet calmness
Of the seas
And still I turn to you
For navigation
On the deck you'll find me
Working on my knees
Break
Chorus
Your hard to follow riddles run from me
The colors bleed across the lines
Leaving question marks instead
And all around you clowns they put on
Happy faces when they're sad inside
Leaving me smiling yet suspecting that you lied
Maybe all of this is craziness
Nothing more than swine
Jumping to their certain death
To place your feet upon the world
Tells me of the madness of your claim
Yet I find I cannot let go of you just the same
And I find myself in this trilemma
If not a liar or a lunatic
Frightening
You are Lucy with her diamonds in the sky
All the points of light across the darkness
Find their focus when you're there
And carry me closer to believing if I dare
And I find myself in this trilemma
Flying south to beat the cold
These hunger pains are getting old
But what to do?
Looking down, a blanket green
They all look alike it seems
No way to choose
Then I see the
Lilies dancing in the field
Lilies dancing in the field
Lilies dancing in the field
Maybe they are real
Provision makes her way to me
Against the green the dogwood trees
Are splashing red
A beacon full of berry cheer
Full and ripe this time of year
Now I am fed
Chorus + guitar break
They're smiling
Drinking up the morning dew
They're dancing
Blowing in the wind
They're laughing
Sticking out their yellow tongues
They're prancing
Flowing with the wind
Chorus + perc solo
Why does the dogwood
Do their lily dance for me?
Being rooted they can't move around
But I'll drop their seed right on the ground
Where I will land tomorrow
Do for them as they've done their
Lily dance for me
Chorus
Play me a song
Play me the wind over the fields of wheat
I am dancing
Dancing, my heart is light and dancing
Is that your voice?
Please take me with you atop the waves
A sea made of gold, sweet, honey glaze
Waiting
Waiting, my heart anticipating
Your harvest song
It's you in the winds of wheat
Making music sweet
I know you're there
You, moving through the air
Singing songs so fair
I hear you in the winds of wheat
Closing my eyes
Spinning around
The wind takes me there
An autumn sound
Singing
Singing, my heart is light and singing
Your harvest song
Chorus
In the fields I hear your golden symphony
I hear you moving in the winds of wheat
Out across the fields you're dancing wild and free
I see you moving in the winds of wheat
Winds of wheat
I know you're there in the winds of wheat
Into the forest I run wracked with fear
The dogs are loose and running wild
I hear them barking
My enemies are near
Calling out your name
I just hope you show up here real soon
Calling out your name
I need you to show up here real soon
Desperately I throw myself on you
Still I'm running, frightened by their growl
They're getting closer to the pounce
Their faces mocking
Froth upon their mouth
Calling out your name
I just hope you show up here real soon
Calling out your name
I need you to rescue me real soon
Waiting on your thunder
to rain down
Roaring like a hurricane
Toppling them across the plain
Crushing blows amidst their screams
Smashing them to smithereens
Scattering on your command
My enemies, they flee under your hand
They keep coming, demons in the night
Horns are lowered, eyes are glaring
Kick there way around
Prey upon my fright
Calling out your name
I just hope you show up here real soon
Calling out your name
I need you to rescue me real soon
Waiting on your thunder
to rain down
Roaring like a hurricane ...
Gouging out their granite eyes
Reveling their painful cries
You pull me up out of their graves
To you I sing unending praise
Well it came to me, I'm not sure just how
I'm to build this boat, I'm to build it now
Made of gopherwood
My understanding is the water will rise
And I'm not to be fooled by the clear blue skies
In the neighborhood
Yes I'd like to walk on the water
And if I must then I will ride this boat
He made for me
All living things walking two by two
As we loaded them up, we were almost through
It started pouring
Forty days and forty longer nights
We were tossed about both left and right
The sea was roaring
Chorus
Bridge/Guitar Break
Chorus
Well the waters prevailed and for one whole year
We rocked this boat but the Lord was near us giving
All living things on earth they died
By the grace of God we were on his side and living
Chorus
This boat he made for me
I'm gonna ride this boat he made for me
It's got a 350 horse up under the hood
Pushing air through eight just the way it should
190 miles in less than an hour
It's solid on the block roaring like a tiger
Make your hair fly back ten pounds lighter
It's more than style, we're talkin' power
This little red car is all I've got
This little red car is all I need
It's all I've got
It's got tan leather seats supple to the touch
You can slide right in without too much
Effort on your part, we're talkin' easy
Put your hands on the wheel and feel that purr
It'll drive itself if you have the courage
To let go, it's almost easy
This little red car is all I've got
This little red car is all I need
It's all I've got
She'll purr like a kitten on the long and straight
And hug like a lion every curve you take
Wherever you go, she will go
Put the rag top down and enjoy the ride
When you close your eyes I think you'll find
This little red car can save your soul
This little red car is all I've got
This little red car is all I need
This little red car is all I've got
This little red car is all I need
It's all I've got
The virgin skies release you
But you descend on me so gently
Finally you reach me
And on my toungue you tickle lightly
You're like the wind with a face
And in the night air I can see you
Dust before the darkness
Uplifting me, I wanna be you
So fall on me, blanket white
You're like the wings of an angel in the night
Fall on me, blanket white
Cover me tonight
You come to me in silence
Yet you bring me fresh air singing
A message to this earth
Of lasting hope that you are bringing
Chorus
You offer me a new slate
Like I'm the first one to walk on this earth
A pure white, virgin surface
In many ways just like a new birth
Chorus
Nestled in the comfort of this pillow
Lying in the folds on the bed of life
I hear the whispers
That never will reach me and finally surrender
Wraps me up in a shroud of darkness
Yet into this tomb a ray of light
Into the light I go
I'm a butterfly
From this fuzzy tomb
I escape
Into the light I go
I'm a butterfly
As I spread these wings
I escape
Circling all around me are many shadows
Their voices are a murmur, the darkest night
I move my wings, pushing up against the edge of the garden
The universe
I'm so tired, where to find my rest
Feeding on the vine, the vine of life
Chorus
Clinging desperately
To this new life into the light
. . . into the vine
. . . into the light
Chorus
Drifting into twilight
The evening ushers in her day
Eyes upon the sidewalk
The shifting shadows have their way
She don't know she don't know don't know
How the monkey will treat her today
She can't go she can't go can't go
Can't go back home--she's a runaway
Once again the mirror
The pencil runs across her eyes
Her lips are red and rosy
A painted face is her disguise
She don't know she don't know don't know
How the monkey will treat her today
She can't go she can't go can't go
Can't go back home--she's a runaway
What day is it now
Is it Monday, Tuesday
What day is it now
Is it Wednesday, Thursday
What day is it now
Is it Friday, Saturday
She's a runaway
Living down and under
She counts the ceiling tiles again
Waiting for the thunder
So she can go where she has been
She don't know she don't know don't know
How the monkey will treat her today
She can't go she can't go can't go
Can't go back home--she's a runaway
Chorus
Her mind makes her dizzy
Goes on a merry-go-round
With her daddy
Spinning and scary
His hands moving freely
Scarring so deeply
Then off to the place
Where the fingers on the roof point steeply
Chorus
What day is it now
Is it Sunday
She's a runaway