"Corron Road" Lyrics

A Palinode

Listen here all you fools.
Gather ‘round and show no frown.
I have seen, I have heard, so don’t let me down.

My future has been made so bleak
By Animals and Those Who Speak.
I have lived, I have died, God help me I’m meek.

Too tired to run I flee in my dreams--
Burning makeshift clouds that promised rain again.
In the morning I’ll run to the town as well
Stringing pipes that flare and beg me--oh--I shall dare.

Lest I kiss the sky
I must pray for wings--with
Earthly design, fame above all things--I
Gave a reason why we should save our lives--but
Am I falling yet?

Should the Clouds burst in and storm and storm,
Raining powers in folds and folds? I am not alone!

Should I swallow the sun just one more time,
While twilight’s feasting bestirs her rhyme? I will keep my throne!

Lest I kiss the sky
I must pray for wings--with
Earthly design, fame above all things--I-
Gave a reason why we should save our lives--but
Am I falling yet?

You heard my passing by:
Through the cloud a fable
In which I knew no other name

So watch:
as they fall to their knees and at the sky I yell
“I am whole!”

Go kiss the sky, Oh Great Divide,
Of Mice and Men too shrewd to crawl
Not in disguise, you with no eyes
To say what has been seen before.
I only gave a reason why
--we should save our lives--
Don’t plant what you can’t reap
For what is yours is not to keep

But am I falling? Am I falling? Oh am I falling yet?