Swaddling Songs

Shall we follow shall we follow shall we find another day blind old explorers pretending to stay gales and galleons are drawing them away lies unspoken the day is broken anyway Shall we bury shall we bury shall we hide it underground ours are no root

Winding up a hillside where the shepards roam Counting their flocks in the gloaming Shining the sea, winking its light to the froth and the foam. Chilling the air with his shady tread, On came the wolf with surprise Filling his eyes with soft sapless

Hell's awake and the devil crows greets the day with a gale that blow beyond his furthest realm into Daniel's kingdom Who has woken who has broken Dan the Wing's infernal dreams? the devil's croak and gale awoke Daniel from his dreams Dan's awake and

Lonely man looking for the day damns the night whose stars have left him cold lonely man doesn't know they're watching shouting all his questions to the sky. Lonely man. Lonely man searching for the sea fears the doom of ocean's prisoner lonely man d

Sell me morning sell me day sell me everything I'll buy all your crazy herbs and spice the sunshine and the air Sunday morning breathe in my face and I own Sell me evening sell me night sell me starry sky I'll buy all your crazy moonlight flicker on

Bring snowy lady with the laughing, spread your sailing angels over me Tell a tale of old sinfuls, look for you to change their face Do not cry, for all your leaden tears graced a lorded man whose gift was all too free He came to fall upon a faithles

Reverend Sisters I remember were it yesterday standing young and green before the wisdom age and your black habits wrought "life is not a dream you know" you said "at your age you couldn't know" you said where to go" Reverend Sist

Pity the poet who suffers to give sailing his friendship on oceans of love strange harbour soundwaves break out of his reach love is a foreigner to the Queen of the Beach Queen of the Beach Moonfilled and thunderful star-staggered eyes she broke away

Solstice brings the chill winds to an end blows summers into chambers cold dressed as she is in her green and cold Winter moons turn in another sky spun by a ghostly sailor's hand freezing the earth of another land If the winter winds have made you c