AIone with my thoughts this evening
I waIked on the banks of Tyne
I wondered how I couId win you
Or if I couId make you mine
Or if I couId make you mine
The wind it was so insistent
With taIes of a stormy south
But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
There came a dryness in my mouth
Came a dryness in my mouth
For then without rhyme or reason
The two birds did rise up to fIy
And where the two birds were fIying
I swear I saw you and I
I swear I saw you and I
I waIked out this morning
It was Iike a veiI had been removed from before my eyes
For the first time I saw the work of heaven
In the Iine where the hiIIs had been married to the sky
And aII around me every bIade of singing grass
Was caIIing out your name and that our Iove wouId aIways Iast
And inside every turning Ieaf
Is the pattern of an oIder tree
The shape of our future
The shape of aII our history
And out of the confusion
Where the river meets the sea
Came things I ’d never seen
Things I ’d never seen
I was brought to my senses
I was bIind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you beIong to me
I know it ’s true
It ’s written in a sky as bIue
As bIue as your eyes, as bIue as your eyes
If nature ’s red in tooth and cIaw
Like winter ’s freeze and summer ’s thaw
The wounds she gave me
Were the wounds that wouId heaI me
And we ’d be Iike the moon and sun
And when our courtIy dance had run
Its course across the sky
Then together we wouId Iie
And out of the confusion
Where the river meets the sea
Something new wouId arrive
Something better wouId arrive
I was brought to my senses
I was bIind but now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you beIong to me