Yes I know Well I’ve been here before I can see how the darkness grows Standing there Against trees stripped-bare And a sky that is blackened By crows
Yes I know Well I’ve been once or twice To the point where it freezes Fragile like ice Leaving you standing With your reason stripped-bare Leaving you standing No stranger To fear
Dance me on With this very broken song Your Jerusalem rose And you hair worn long
Reach to me With these holes in your hands Your body a book None can understand
So sing now in silence Cast yourself into the wind It’s sullen and shaken and torn And everything, everything Everything’s gone
It’s a silence that will not bloom Sewn by the seeds of our voice It’s a word that has been lost Lost to us now In these desert time
So sing now in silence Cast yourself into the wind Its sullen and shaken and torn And everything’s gone
It’s a silence that will not bloom Sewn by the seeds of our voice It’s a word that has been lost Lost to us now in these desert time
Yes I know Well I’ll been here before I can see how the darkness grows Standing there Against trees stripped-bare And a sky that is blackened by crows
Yes I know Well I’ve been once or twice To the point where it freezes Over like ice Leaving you standing With your reason stripped-bare Leaving you there No stranger To fear
Dance me on with your very broken Song Your Jerusalem Rose And your hair worn long
Reach to me
With these holes in your hands Your body a book
On your lips its command
Dance me on….. Dance me on and on
This utterance is threefold A prayer, a lament, and an exultation A taste of honey on the tongue Mixed with brambles: Briars, brimstone and living bread
May these words go straight Into the starry silence Rootless, like a Russian thistle Blown into the camps That litter the night Outside the city walls
You are the you called out for And never received But leading on Streaming blindly Thread-red into the Winter night
From the stinging silence That creeps over the rooftops That is borne, Like ash upon the wind And steals across the Sleeping houses
In the American twilight The voices call forth: O Polyphony Of fallen forms
To the muted song Of the sullen Danube And the whispering Of the Thames As they sneak by, Ghosts beside Their estranged shores
To Tehran And sad Jerusalem
To Western Sudan Gaunt in her empty wilderness
To the television visions Of a thousand unbroken walls And the hands of children Burning in the mouth of hunger
This utterance is threefold And absolute in its impossibility This entreatment A sacrifice to silence
But in silence Is their still song?
From where shall the light Be drawn?
The temple is always torn The rose rises Chocked by briar and thorn But God will Again be born
Cast out beyond hope The net of your voice And speak madly Against this Unrelenting wind…