| I can smell the redwood fire of Oregon
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| These memories form a choir and they sing to me
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| It’s years since I’ve been home
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| And I’ve ached for you
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| And I wonder how you changed
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| And if you know my face at all
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| I’m praying that you will
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| I’ll carry the thought of you
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| So gently in my two hands
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| The decades are stuck like glue
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| Like the blood soaked into the land
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| My stampeding heart is lost
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| Like the compass you always were
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| I can see in the thawing frost
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| That your way is the way home
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| Our ghosts fill up the room completely
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| So there’s barely room for us and
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| A clumsy silence falls
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| These years have humbled me and
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| I know it’s too late
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| Your eyes have been my guide they’ve lit my
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| Northern sky for twenty years or more |