if I could find the darkness
there would be true night for me
& the stars that hang in brightness
would be too stark to see
& the moon has whispered ages
that she is coming to my throne
that to her this soul of fighting
is a nest to make her home
so I'll hold her like an angel
I'll hold her like the sea
and the ways I would possess her
are the ways she slips from me
it's a long rise..rise to the edge & I'm gone
these trains they move like islands
got my ear against the tracks
I'm rollin.. rollin..
I'm never coming back
"˜cause this land is cut like diamonds
& sold as quick as bought
I trade the rain for steel
& the days my heart forethought
I have always cheated
the death that came for me
with a song of someone bleeding
and a star too stark to see
it's a long rise..rise to the edge & I'm gone
so if I could find the darkness
there would be true night for me
and the stars that hang in brightness
would be too stark to see
somewhere there's lightning
I could die in your eye
but this radio keeps us warm
the river stole your secrets
the wind bore out my lines
ow your body is my temple
& this moon I take for mine
it's a long rise..rise to the edge & I'm gone