All alone with my thoughts this evening I walked on the banks of time
I wondered how I could win you Or if I could make you mine
Or if I could make you mine The wind was so insistent
With tales of a stormy south When I swore I had two birds in a sickle
Came a dryness in my mouth Came a dryness in my mouth
For then without rhyme or reason Two birds did rise up to fly
And where the two birds were flying I swear I saw you and I
I swear I saw you and I
I walked out this morning It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes
The first time I saw the work of heaven And the line where the hills had been married to the sky
And all around me every blade of sinking grass Was calling out your name
And that our love would always last And inside every turning leaf
Is the pattern of an older tree The shape of our future
The shape of all our history And out of the confusion
Where the river meets the sea Things I'd never seen, things I'd never seen
I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see
Every sign posted nature Said you belong to me
I know it's true It's written in the sky as blue
As blue as your eyes As blue as your eyes
If nature's red in tooth and claw Like winter's freeze and summer's thaw
The wounds she gave me Were the wounds that would heal me
And we'd be like the moon and sun And when our court league danced head front
It's a cross across the sky And together we would lie
And out of the confusion Where the river meets the sea
Something new would arrive Something better would arrive
I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see
Every sign posted nature Said you belong to me
I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see
Every sign posted nature Said you belong to me
I was brought to my senses I was blind now that I can see
Every sign posted nature Said you belong to me