The Wild Geese Lyrics

The Wild Geese lyrics

Chorus:	 The wild geese are flying out on a bright wind



	 And never again will their songs fill our skies



	 They've taken their magic and grace from our seeing



	 And followed the dark in their eyes







1.The wild gypsy geese in a thousand sad cities



Heard tales of a chance to fly from their tears



Out on a sun-breeze in a dark Ban-sidhe wailing



A journey of more than one hundred light years







2.The wild gypsy geese like some star-haunted pilgrims



By ones and by twos all flew to the field



They knew they would fight to the last if they had to



That every dark hunger might somehow be healed







3.And though they were strangers they shared a wild dreaming



And meeting that first time they knew at a glance



Without any planning, by some magic signal



They captured the ship that would see the stars dance







4.And out on the sun-wind they flew in their rapture



With never a thought to the world left behind



The poets, the singers, the dreamers, the mystics



The few who could see among so many blind







5.And every gosling they birthed on the star-ship



Was heir to the wild streak that drove them all on



And still the dark dream and a wild Ban-sidhe wailing



Would haunt all their sleep in that night without dawn







6.And somewhere between the gold star that they came from



And one more unseen at the end of their flight



They lost their last yearning for somewhere to settle



And chased the wild wailing across a dark night







7.The wild geese are flying on sun-colored feathers



In black velvet seas beyond galaxy's shore



The wild geese with all of our dreams in their pockets



Are winging away to forever and more















Words and music:Kathy Mar







Copyright 1984 Kathy Mar