Coyote - Summer Underground

Standing on the Hudson’s edge

I watch these crystal lights don their nighttime skin

I don’t think I’ve ever felt winds this strong

I watch them balance all the chaos

Into bliss-filled, untamed song

I cry in time with her:

«Hosannah, Manhattan»

I was alone with her

Breathing her stillness

Oh but I — I wanna step out to your front porch

I wanna listen to the wolves in your back yard

Take me now I’m ready

The evening’s running steady and I’m all alone and ready for your arms

Isn’t it wonderful to feel so alarmed?

In the morning when you wake your bones

Who will you see outside your window?

I don’t need an answer

But I won’t be the cancer

That destroys you all and leaves you to rust

I can believe in anything if I must

But I’m here

This beautiful prison

I feel like a child

And you are a novel

I turn your pages

The bears and the caverns

The Earl after work’s out

Hudson St. and the third house

Or being too high

In your winter cabin

The casino in Pittsburgh

The bridges and real birds

The American flag planted

Next to a gravestone

The earth and the ocean

And Aquinnah at sundown

You help me see it:

The beauty in all things

But not ‘til they’re ending

What would the point be?

To realize i’m grateful

Before its too late for

Feelings like that

To wash over me

I’m sick of the rats —

Just let them free

And we sing:

«Hosannah, Hosannah»

I can feel everything change