Promise of the Prairie

The dust has settled on the porch;

The rocker's still, the coffee's cold;

I'm looking for a different light;

Since you left the story told;

I kept the letters in the drawer;

I kept the keys beside the door;

But the house feels like a hollow shell;

I don't live here anymore;

Take me back to the river;

Wake me back to the start;

Where the water runs slow;

Through the cracks in my heart;

Take me back to the river, take me back to the start;

I saw the hawk above the pine;

It's tracing circles in the grey;

There's green doors hanging by a hinge;

Just like the words I couldn't say;

There's a comfort in the silence now in the way the shadows bend;

Every road

I ever walked was just a means to find an end;

Take me back to the river;

Take me back to the start;

Where the water runs slow through the cracks in my heart;

Take me back to the river;

Take me back to the star;

Baby, time is just a long lost friend;

Waiting round the final bend;

So tell me what was always true;

That I was never far from you;

Take me back to the river;

Take me back to the storm;

Where the water runs slow;

Through the cracks in my heart;

Take me back to the river, take me back to the storm;

Back to the start;

To the river;

Just let it flow;

Slowly now;

Just let it fall slowly now;

Just let it flow, show me now;