I took the longest walk I knew
There's still no way to get around you
The changing light, the changing wind
The changing miles of where I've been

Hear the hollow space
Words we cannot bring ourselves to say
I'm at the edge looking in
While you repeat yourself again

And I can hear you, history, your melody
And I can feel my feet repeat the path beneath

I hold you out like someone else
But you shimmer and you bend and I think I see myself
Sun splits through the fingered trees
I see the air, you're all around me, I am lost and you have found me

And I can feel you, history, you're haunting me
And oh see that flicker of a sheet in every breath we breathe

Still somewhere deep inside, you hide an undertow
Still there are words I find in you that point me home

I took the longest walk I knew
And then I crawled, and then I climbed, and then I got ahead of you
The light is new. There is no path. I question each step, doubting it.
But I am inside time
and you are out of it.

*

written by alison ledgerwood
piano & voice - alison

white

alison ledgerwood