only paper in our pockets wild clouds in the sky these days i can't ever find my shoes hot as day we set fires till the storm breaks 2 names caught barefoot in the rain the house of money has fallen the weeds are growing wild in the rain there are no shadows so let it rain the rain it rains in your mind in the shelter of lightning you remind me 3 trees make a grove of their own see the sky kiss the sweet pepper flowers in time we remember our wings the house of money has fallen the weeds are growing tall in our bed we roar like lions shake the loveless loose from their throne in time the whole earth our chapel in time let flower turn stone i believe to believe in the cedar sided vision of us just us at home the house of money has fallen the weeds are growing wild in the rain we unfold our longing so let it rain this rain on your body let it rain the rain it rains in your mind

i don't wanna talk about your boyfriend i don't wanna talk about my woes i just want you to kiss me softly lips like honey sweetness i've been looking for a long long time i wondered why the good lord made me so why he placed inside me a longing to know a woman through & through for i've known men whose voices drew bower birds from their homes & how i wanted to want to let them know the full weight of my bones but i never knew what love lay in the soft corners of my heart till you cast a light that showed me the shape of a whole embodied truth so i'm done talking about your boyfriend i'm done talking about my soul i just want you to use your hands again make the world bright again don't you worry about the flame going out

if if could slip the miles from your shoes peel back the years that've worn you down – i would there'll be coffee in the morning & a house by the water – i would you don't need much i know i'm a stranger i know you've been fooled but 2 doves crossed an ocean they thought they shouldn't – like i would like i would for you if i could touch the colors in your mind mouth softly open as you dream in the night – i would i know that my fire like all fires just burns a sun who will never touch the dark of his moon – but i'll learn i'll learn for you i'll follow your memory to the edges of time the weight of 2 stars hanging ripe in the sky – i would think you could leave me behind? i would – there's more than this life i would – think you could leave me behind?

is it snowing where you are? & the moon does she shine her face down just to look into your eyes? in the mountains our hands touched the hum of the earth i am your river of desire send me where you will & here in the city where sweet dreams ferment i remember you danced once as the folks in their eyes drank you up won't you come down my love bells wrapped round your feet & put out the light bulbs 9 at a time yeah i burn with the city to know the shape of your hand what space you will hold & who in it can you touch the harvest without 1st dropping seeds? i trust soon the spring of our lives

you walked in some forgotten goddess bells wrapped round your feet your vision filled my head with noises heavy rich & sweet i acted out as i'd been taught i showed you what to see you showed me something else instead an ocean in a seed i liked the way you ate that apple lustful as it seems i never meant to tempt your body only haunt your dreams i'll still slit each cattle throat if you will reap the corn your love is purer than the water that lets this city float who helps each city float? who helps each city find a home on each forgotten shore? your beauty's like some holy lighthouse draws my soul home

brother you've been walking a long road whose road do you think you're on though? yeah whose road do you think you're on though? sister you've come a long way & i see the burden that's come on you & i feel the cut in your palm yeah sister you've flown a long way whose heart did you think you wanted & can i help you find it or is your love too pure? these hard times they try us & i see the burden that's come on us & i feel the cut in your palm yeah & whose road do you think you're on though? brother i've been wrong before this road's not as narrow if the fields lie fallow we'll sow them ourselves what's the rush?

these days i am a postcard fading fast with the light a longing in whose hand? wint'ry clouds on my mind took a job in an office counting sheep or was it money? i've been squinting at whose stars? too long & some dreams i'm a man with a silk noose round my neck & pills behind my mirrors & an ache in my chest for the peace that i knew once when whose father? still held any truths a man could ever hope to know for a long time sister i only saw in december the dark winter whorl of a people who smile politely than say, "merry christmas, happy new year -- you're still going to hell" please believe me when i say to you now i was weary & wanderlusting knocking on windows & you called me a woman with these righteous moods & you said, "go on howlin' the language of your skin" i'll take these words with me as i unravel through time the resonance of a home wreath'd in cardamom & pine silver bells & a cup of kindness poured hot for any stranger who's grateful for this christmas she's found o sister christmas won't you stay the year through? & each morning lead me to the joys of this world we make of this life all we dare it to make turn this wine back to water & forgive our mistakes the flame in its glass but your light everywhere opaalanhaare nirgun aun yaare tumre bin hamra kaunon naahin thumri ulachan suljhaao bhagwan tumre bin hamra kaunon naahin