SONGS:
-- The Gift --
9 February 1988. Toronto, Canada.

Found on:

Big Circumstance (1988)
Lyrics:

These shoes have walked some strange streets
Stranger still to come --
Sometimes the prayers of strangers
Are all that keeps them from
Trying to stay static
Something even death can't do
Everything is motion --
To the motion be true

In this cold commodity culture
Where you lay your money down
It's hard to even notice
That all this earth is hallowed ground --
Harder still to feel it
Basic as a breath --
Love is stronger than darkness
Love is stronger than death

The gift
Keeps moving --
Never know
Where it's going to land.
You must stand
Back and let it
Keep on changing hands

Hackles rise in anger
Heat waves rise in sex
The gift moves on regardless
Tying this world to the next
May you never tire of waiting
Never feel that life is cheap
May your life be filled with light
Except for when you're trying to sleep

The gift
Keeps moving --
Never know
Where it's going to land
You must stand
Back and let it
Keep on changing hands



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