Тексты песен «Shearwater»

People got no respect for the dead, they roll new plans out neatly. But into a morning exploding with red, I awoke completely - an accident. Though you smile so sweetly above your congregational coffee, in the town...

A calm then, the roaring wall of the eye As we sailed to the world from an insular life From the boughs that had sheltered us all of our lives From the sun's red blooming With a shadow on every life And we laid in the...

Born inside the gates of a family Hardened by a roman machinery Cast among the building sites, The coiling wires, the shots collected Called out in the wake of a lottery Held inside a family gathering Mirrored beams...

Come down from the lion's back Call down to the endless sleepers Give life to the dimming days That run in an endless stream now In the black of the eye In the heat of the act Is a crack in the ice Come down from the...

By shadowing All the darkened fields Of forgotten words And civilian lives Violence Through the changing guards Through the grinding away And their furious marching By gathering the holy light And weathering...

You were not the first to arrive Will not be the last to survive The pigs and the oxen we bound to the wheel Turn it off, turn it off You are not the last of this house Or the first to go over the side Remember the...

Walk him up and down the corridors Till his arms are tired Till his lungs are tired Starve him of the air, the dimming light Till his eyes are wide Till his eyes are wild Till he sees the other side Chain him to the...

My brother stands at the end of the line My children at the breaking wall The clouds is opening over the earth The palms a dark and waving wall And we call back to the old familiar life Please hide me My father climbs...

Gone from the house to the snows Like a wandering light You send a last balloon To the solemn light of the moon's eye Over the fields And the arcs of the radial lines That bind the waking world To the hidden life of...

When you were a child, you were a tomboy And your mother laughed at the serious way That you looked at her And from your window at night There were the star's little fires And the armory lights You were tracing the...

I was a cloud I was a cloud looking down Your frantic waving Did not provoke feeling But this little one Steady your wings now, sparrow I remembered him Steady your claws now, sparrow And in the dark From the sea...

Something is breathing in the air Something is moving, in the water And the winds in you are blowing Bring back my boy I loved him I loved him Gentle flakes of snow On the roads and the fences And I'm fading out...

In a power dive In a slow burn Over ancient fields Over islands From the slope and the rise Of the mainland Unfamiliar shapes Through the atmosphere Over rain clouds To the brimming bowl Coral inlaid...

The hollow light is still on the fields Where the winter has warmed And the snows have drained away And the hunter's cry is still on the air As the bullet flies home And the heart that's pierced with it Still is...

My blistered feet turn bloody So I take to the air And I am everywhere, I am starlight Oh, I am moonlight Over burning fields and bodies I stay close to the ground Slipping miles from the arches and arc-lights Into the...

In the burning daze Of unnatural light I took a long drive Into the evening On the barracks road Past the generals' eyes Down to the seawall Where the waves stand by The enormous lull Then a roar in the sky...

Effortless gulls in the wake Silver and white on the bow As the island is broken away From the world Bandages pulled from the eyes The violent surging of life In the bloodstream of heaven and earth Falls away Stars on...

From the wreck of the ark To the fading day of our star The light races, the light drags The moon rises, the moon sags Over the rolling waves And your hand's on the balcony As a spine pricks the world And the shudder...

The wind that lifts the leaves against the night The reeds that bow and bend beneath its weight The holy sap, its smoky light I will not hide The fish that swim inside the murky deep The island shores that loom above...

In place of the sun In place of the moon A terrible light Will flood every room And bathed in this light, We will swim again From the high desert's walls To the seas, red and black Turn the transmitters off We...