Bruce Cockburn Lily Of The Midnight Sky Lyrics

Lily Of The Midnight Sky Lyrics

Over the slow slide of continents Over the salt pans pipelines masts and
pavilions Shimmering crescent moon recedes into working dawn -- Lone crow
against pallid sky Single plume of white smoke on yellow speckled plain
Yellowing leaves sparkle in cold breeze -- Wave patterns among wave patterns
Particles disperse and rejoin Dissolve and reform like the lining of a womb
Still The cold of your absence blows from The silent TV, the parking lot The
balcony with clothes waving good-byehello 



In the rising day You
keep fading away Don't I know that you're always around I can reach you if I
try Lily of the midnight sky 



Solders of sunrise -- shooting into
a forest of flowers Slow motion Petals float into pink crimson white Grow wings
Flutter into mountainous distance Flutter like a stadium full of applauding
hands I raise a fist to the marauding sun that has hidden you away I'm the rag
in a bottle of gasoline Longing to ignite Ich will alles All of you -- shining
on the panther skin of night Mirrored in a black lake in a night that glistens
like blood on gold 



Nobody else could be you If only I could see
you I should be able to touch you somehow I can reach you if I try Lily of the
midnight sky 



While you look from on high Spare a smile as I Put
on my dog mask and howl for you I can reach you if I try Lily of the midnight
sky