The wild places

The hours grow shorter as the days go by You never get to stop and open your eyes One day you're waiting for the sky to fall The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all When you're lovers in a...

There's thorns on the cactus tree There's thorns on the rose There's thorns in the heart of me That nobody knows They tear at the flesh until The tears start to rise They form in my heart But they...

In the overcrowded cities where the nights are bright as day You spend your weekly paycheck and turn your eyes away From the crisis we've created with our self-indulgent ways Living like there's no...

The light is long the sun is low I'm riding fast across this dusty road But I don't want to be, no I don't want to be Above the ridge an eagle flies In lazy circles in the western skies I want to fly...

Up through the branches The stars shine above On the arroyos And mesas you loved And as the moon rises The black mountain mourns For the old friend He'll look on no more Jacks-In-The-Pulpit Bones in...

May the trail rise up to meet you May your heart rejoice in song May the skies be fair above you As you journey ever on Ever on, ever on Ever on, ever on In this planetary circle We are but a single...

They came from Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun And crossed the North Atlantic when this century was young They'd heard that in America every man was free To live the way he chose to live and be...

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain Telling me just what a fool I've been I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain And let me be alone again The only girl I ever loved has gone away Looking...

Broken clouds along the blue horizon The sun is setting and the wind is dying down Outward bound, there is music all around Can you hear it, it's the song of the sea Soundings taken at the edge of...

I was walking alone through the lofty San Juans With a heart full of light and a head full of songs I was thinking of time and how much it will cost To recapture the souls that we surely have lost In...