A fence is stretched across my brow | |
A divided country: then and now, | |
And you the border guard | |
My caravan waved off the track | |
With dusty miners hid in back, | |
Their faces glowing hard … | |
Bruised and black and hunkered down, | |
From sparkling fuses underground, | |
And digging the way through | |
To surface on some other side | |
With time to burn, a past to hide, | |
And one eye out for you | |
WIth letters cut from magazines | |
I hide my hand and speak between | |
The truth and what I need | |
I lift the face of something strong, | |
To mask the shadow growing long | |
And blur what it concedes… | |
I've found myself out on a range | |
Found the mirror staring strange, | |
Demanding what I knew | |
Of tell-tale stripes across my back | |
The eyes I keep - each blue and black, | |
And both of them out for you | |
Now I've crossed into some northern town | |
Where winds rise up and stars come down | |
And no one knows my name | |
I stitch a coat from what I find | |
And weave a story in my mind | |
With nothing such as blame … | |
I scrawl out pages, watch them burn | |
The jumpy horses nod in turn, | |
The way I need them to | |
Before I run them to the fields | |
As buildings blaze and dot the hills | |
Like all eyes out for you |
A fence is stretched across my brow | |
A divided country: then and now, | |
And you the border guard | |
My caravan waved off the track | |
With dusty miners hid in back, | |
Their faces glowing hard | |
Bruised and black and hunkered down, | |
From sparkling fuses underground, | |
And digging the way through | |
To surface on some other side | |
With time to burn, a past to hide, | |
And one eye out for you | |
WIth letters cut from magazines | |
I hide my hand and speak between | |
The truth and what I need | |
I lift the face of something strong, | |
To mask the shadow growing long | |
And blur what it concedes | |
I' ve found myself out on a range | |
Found the mirror staring strange, | |
Demanding what I knew | |
Of telltale stripes across my back | |
The eyes I keep each blue and black, | |
And both of them out for you | |
Now I' ve crossed into some northern town | |
Where winds rise up and stars come down | |
And no one knows my name | |
I stitch a coat from what I find | |
And weave a story in my mind | |
With nothing such as blame | |
I scrawl out pages, watch them burn | |
The jumpy horses nod in turn, | |
The way I need them to | |
Before I run them to the fields | |
As buildings blaze and dot the hills | |
Like all eyes out for you |
A fence is stretched across my brow | |
A divided country: then and now, | |
And you the border guard | |
My caravan waved off the track | |
With dusty miners hid in back, | |
Their faces glowing hard | |
Bruised and black and hunkered down, | |
From sparkling fuses underground, | |
And digging the way through | |
To surface on some other side | |
With time to burn, a past to hide, | |
And one eye out for you | |
WIth letters cut from magazines | |
I hide my hand and speak between | |
The truth and what I need | |
I lift the face of something strong, | |
To mask the shadow growing long | |
And blur what it concedes | |
I' ve found myself out on a range | |
Found the mirror staring strange, | |
Demanding what I knew | |
Of telltale stripes across my back | |
The eyes I keep each blue and black, | |
And both of them out for you | |
Now I' ve crossed into some northern town | |
Where winds rise up and stars come down | |
And no one knows my name | |
I stitch a coat from what I find | |
And weave a story in my mind | |
With nothing such as blame | |
I scrawl out pages, watch them burn | |
The jumpy horses nod in turn, | |
The way I need them to | |
Before I run them to the fields | |
As buildings blaze and dot the hills | |
Like all eyes out for you |