Take Us Back

Atop the crags and cliffs, the air is thin

So we'll find a mountain path on down the hill

Meet me where the snowmelt flows

It is there, my dear, where we will begin again

Skipping stones, braiding hair

Last year's antlers mark the trail

Take us back, oh, take us back

Oh, take us, take us back

Take us back, oh, take us back

Oh, take us, take us back

I've a friend who lives out by the rivers mouth

He knows the fiddles cry is an old sound

A lonesome bow, the creeks and moans of empty houses

Are songs like falling rain

Windblown buildings, muddy ground

The strength of water can sink a man

Take us back, oh, take us back

Oh, take us, take us back

Take us back, oh, take us back

Oh, take us, take us back

When the higher hills have turned to blue

And the waves are lapping where the children grew

All that we have known will be an echo

Of days when love was true

Muted voices just beyond

The silent surface of what has gone