Slowly Rivers Turn

There’s a sky when you run

And there’s a sky when you surrender

You’re so warm

The tangle of your thorns

But your hands, they know

It only hurts

When in the hour you remember you’re the child

In the tangle of your mind

You light up from a whisper telling how

I never found the way around myself I listen now

I looked for waking worlds

And no restraint in singing voices of my friends

A rising with no end

Along the sweep of words

I run my eyes

And see my old skin floating gently somewhere far

I wonder who we are

A light up from a whisper telling how

I never knew the captain’s skill but, oh

I wonder now

Slowly rivers turn

When love is out

Slowly rivers turn

A light up from a whisper telling how

I never found my way down to the shore I listen now

I don’t want to be the yeller of my longings

I don’t want to be the sailor of my past

I don’t want to be the band the plays the wedding

With a new leaving song on their mind

I got to try

Slowly rivers turn

When love is out

Slowly rivers turn

A light up from a whisper telling how

I never knew the captain’s skill but, oh I get it now

You light up from a whisper telling how

I never found a way around myself