Whose hands could love you more
Than these which fret tirelessly
Trees that grew up with us
Branch off in the night
And arch over the garden wall

Here we are

Beautiful new grown forms
Flower in lungs and spinal cords
Eve, she cut off the locks 
Of her great father's hair
While a bird flew up and up
on the staves and the notes

Here we are
In the old bone yard
Only yards
Away


1. Over The Garden Wall

I don't believe it
I don't believe it was you that they found
On the mountain with blood on your mouth
I've heard you sing with the bath running
And now I'm waiting

'Cus I don't know where you are
It can't be far
I don't know if god's your friend
But I am

I don't believe what
I don't believe what they're saying about you
You are sat like a mountain somewhere
Laughing with your soles bare
Just waiting to return
And now I'm waiting

'Cus I don't know where you are
It can't be far
I don't know if god's your friend
But I am


2. Mountain Man

6. Bonfire Night 1994

Well you arrived in the dead of night
When everything breathed sighs at life
These old red bricks are born witness
To smudges left by passing lips

Arriving, dawning, unfolding
Under intimate stars
I go wandering in and wandering out
Wandering in and wandering out
Of your sight
And I've arrived

Well you arrived to the Earth's applause
You cracked a smile, I smashed a grin
And wondered where you'd always been

Arriving, dawning, unfolding
Under intimate stars
I go wandering in and wandering out
Wandering in and wandering out
Of your sight
And I've arrived

5. Born In A Caul

There's a list of our names
Births, deaths, and marriages
Under the church on the edge of town
It doesn't record the maniac harmonies
We sang at night 
While lights soared over the garden

That wasn't your face
Plastered high on the billboard
Your laugh was strained
Your eyes shone strange
I wanted to bring you home
I waited these years for you
To live out the fable
Now murderers and millionaires dine at our table

You were not born
We were not born
And we'll never die

7. Beyond The Lights

Autumn's children point out to sea
Where our city used to be
No more signals
No more radio towers
Silent wires to higher powers

Lost their teeth and shed their claws
Naked soles run on the shores
No more X-rays
No more iodine
No more angels at high tide

The same old moon
The same old sun
The same old sacred silence

Can you hear me through my body?
Can you hear me through antennas?
Can you hear me through wires?

4. Antennas

So life came out of the ground
Sunlight shone down on it all
Love came out of the shadows
And you were mine

Agents drew stars on our doors
Their trains took us down to the lake
They sailed our ashes like paper boats
Wrote off our lines
Wrote off our minds

Borrowed Body

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