Alone with my
thoughts this evening
I walked on the banks of Tyne
I wondered how I could win you
Or if I could make you mine
Or if I could make you mine
The wind it was so insistent
With tales of a stormy south
But when I spied two birds
in a sycamore tree
There came a
dryness in my mouth
Came a dryness in my mouth
For then without
rhyme or reason
The 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
For the first time I saw
the work of heaven
In the line where the hills
had been married to the sky
And all around me
Every blade of singing 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
Came things I'd never seen
Things I'd never seen
I was brought to my senses
I was blind but
now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me
I know it's true
It's written in a 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 courtly
dance had run
Its course across the sky
Then 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 but
now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me
I was brought to my senses
I was blind but
now that I can see
Every signpost in nature
Said you belong to me
