Blue of Distance Lyrics
BLUE OF DISTANCE
LISTEN / BUY01 - SONGS OF THE LIVING
The deer don't lie.
I have watched them in the morning light,
Dappled ‘neath the beech and ash and maple
Crossing over a river a swollen
With the remnants of a long last winter night. They lift their heads up
To a cloudless sky
To say a storm is coming in,
Though it's still miles and miles and miles from here,
You've got to trust your intuition
Just to stay alive. I see blue on the horizon.
I fear not my undoing.
On the horizon
I fear not my undoing. When the woods get quiet,
It is not silent.
Subtle is the choir of the mystic-
The songs of the living
and dying. I did not make my way out to this mountain-
howling,
begging for a sign-
For I knew I would not find it
With the eyes of a skeptic.
No, not with the eyes of a skeptic I see blue on the horizon.
I fear not my undoing.
On the horizon
I fear not my undoing.
02 - LOST AS I’VE EVER GONE
When the last of the sun meets the juniper,
It colors the song of the meadowlark.
How many miles have your ready wings flown?
And still, love is as lost as you've ever known
Love is as lost as you've ever known
Sweet as the sage and the juniper,
To witness the song of the meadowlark.
How many miles have I wandered among them?
Still, love is as lost as I've ever gone.
Love is as lost as I’ve ever gone.
03 - MEADOWLARK
( Instrumental )
04 - NEED NO TENDING
Blue, green
Damp earth.
I am alright to be just a small part of the beauty in the world.
When the nine-mile mountain hums,
”I need no tending.
I need no tending,
But for the flowers to bloom.”
05 - JUNIPER GROVE
( Instrumental )
06 - VIRGA
( Instrumental )
07 - THE VALLEY IS WIDE
Timeless, unrefined,
Night falls heavy,
The valley is wide
And all-knowing.
Black, chained shadows
Unbroken by silvery light.
And I’m holding on tight
When that cold wind blows.
They can take my stories
And all the warmth I’ve known
But I won’t be
Lonely
Under this moon.
08 - COYOTE
( Instrumental )
09 - FIRE
( Instrumental )
10 - UNION
( Instrumental )
11 - HAIL
( Instrumental )
12 - DUSK
( Instrumental )
13 - HOPPIE CANYON
High as the canyon we climb
Do the clouds in the sky ever look down?
Why am I so terrified?
Do the clouds in the sky ever look down?
I’m trying to sleep through the night
Do the clouds in the sky ever come down?
14 - NIGHT SKY
( Instrumental )
15 - BLUE OF DISTANCE
I stand where the light can hit me.
Where the light can lift me up.
Cause I know that when the night comes,
With it’s deepest, darkest, lonesome
Blue
I’ll think of you.
In my old bandana,
You wore it all the time.
And I left it in your open hands
When I left our love behind.
It was blue,
Blue as time.
I loved you more than I have ever loved a home.
It really wasn’t you, babe,
I just had to walk alone.
The blue of distance is calling me on.
Calling me on.
Will you stand where the light can hit you?
Where the light can lift you up?
So I know that, when the night comes,
With it’s deepest darkest lonesome
Blue,
You’ll be seeing it too.
It was that blue of distance
That carried me on.
Carried me on.