Dar Williams Calling The Moon Lyrics

Calling The Moon Lyrics




The moon wanted more of my night, I turned off the engine and the
headlights, 
The trees appeared as they'd never been gone, I promised the
fields I'd return 
form now on, And the moon kept on rising. I had no more
to say, I put my 
roadmaps away, And surendered the day. And I knokw you'll
be calling me soon, 
And if I don't answer, I'm calling the moon. Calling
the moon, I was calling 
her then, I'm wondering, will she take me again,
Oh, I'm calling the moon. 
When I called the moon back to me, I thought she
wanted my beauty. I shone in 
the best that vanity buys, I covered the path
where my life turned to lies, And 
the moon kept on rising. But I felt
nothing at all, She comes when the empire 
falls, And shines on crumbling
walls. Calling the coon, by the name that she 
hose, As Tennessee wandered
in moth-eaten robes. Oh, I'm calling the moon, 
Calling the moon-- "Oh,
make sense of me, night, I can see so much from this 
cold height." The
moon said, "Oh darkness, my work is done. I've poured this 
bottle of
l
ight from the sun, But their anger keeps on rising. And they don't
understand, 
I've shon them all that I can, That the world is at hand. And I
know they'll 
be calling me soon, And if I don't answer I'm only the
moon." I can see by her 
light, THis one's going out to the moon
tonight, Oh, I'm calling the moon. 
Calling the moon, cause I know what it's
worth, To tug at the seas and illumine 
the earth, Oh I'm calling the moon,
Oh I'm calling the moon.