Kurt Elling Night Dreamer Lyrics

Night Dreamer Lyrics

Lonely the roses of Avondaire  sing as though somebody still may care.

They live only for the dream of living  so come follow where  they will take
you there.



I once was apprenticed  to a man who was living

in
the eye if the hurricane  to know despair,



He knew all the dreams
by heart  just like sailing in a boat of

crystal silence  seeing visions 
of the world  of life within a life.



In a turning  like a burning 
came turning 

out of everything stirring  and what had begun before



but all wrapped up  in one great godly becoming -



Tumbling  and fumbling  and stumbling

into bumbling  and rumbling
along -



whirling it  and swirling it  and twirling it  and hurling
it 

and overturning it  and burning it again.



I shared a
whirling dervish out on the side of a hill called metaphore vivace

swinging en route to a nascent solar  with the scissored visored blizzard
wizard 

gizzarding planets and secrets within  like an avatar.



While meanwhile  in turnstyling  and spinning over him

spells
bespeaking kingdoms in the dark



calling me to yield  knighting me
in a field  covered with armies

and with princes. All were signing 
cannons shining  pennants flying.



And when he spoke to me he sang 
and his words really rang -

this child of the knowledge of the beauty of
the night -



he sang to me of masters passing on  of father after
father after father

climbing up into the lotus bloom  upon the tortoise's
back



and of grandfathers  who danced through their living a longer
time ago.

He showed me a palace in time  in which all the talismans

from all the zeuses  swing upon a pendulum of secrets

in a circle that
remembers  and when asked a question will surren