The First Day

Bring out the stars
 And fade to silence
 Let the heart decide
 And watch it grow
 Ring out the bells
 Trading in blindness
 Fooled by kisses
 Touched by wings
 Shadow fall
 And water fills the room
 Bathed in moon grey blue
 Baby came and spoke her name
 With promises to call again
 Swimming gold in a blackened sea
 She troubles me, she troubles me
 Counting the ways
 To fall without landing
 Stumbling into flight
 Descent and slide
 Compressing sound
 From coal to diamond
 Words are knotted tight
 To chords that bind
 Shadow fall
 And water fills the room
 Bathed in moon grey blue
 Baby came and spoke her name
 With promises to call again
 Swimming gold in a blackened sea
 She troubles me, she troubles me
 Received by the eye, believed by the word
 Be seen to make haste, when the soundings are heard
 Don't discourage me
 Whittling down the wood with the stone
 If the boundary breaks I'm no longer alone
 Don't discourage me
 Bring out the stars
 On the first day
 The first day