Indigo Girls Tether Lyrics

Tether Lyrics

Whatever it was is wasn't manumission

To spill the blood, to pull the weed

You can bury the past but it's a mausoleum

With the ghost of a fist that won't let us be



Can we bring it together?

Can we call from the mountain to the valley below?

Can we make it better?

Do we tether the hawk and do we tether the dove?



I kicked up the dirt, and I said to my neighbor

We keep making it worse, we keep getting it wrong

He tucked in his shirt, he stood a little bit straighter

We need a few less words dear, we need a few more guns



But will it bring us together?

Can we call from the mountain to the valley below?

Can we make it better?

Do we tether the hawk and do we tether the dove?



Enduring love why so much and so strong

Beyond this short existence?



Don't be still say there's a long line behind you

And it's hardly worth the mentioning

But I will 'cause we may flicker and fade

But we never will be through with this



I see this world battered but not broken

There's a fallow heart and it's waiting on a sowing hand

You can grow what you want, but one day it's gonna rise up

So plant what you need to make a better stand



And we'll bring it together

And we'll call from the mountain to the valley below

And we'll make it better

Let go off the hawk well let go off the dove



I sing to you, all you true believers

With the strength to see this and not be still

I'm telling you now, find the hope that feeds you

Don't let 'em bleed you of your will