Negative Light Lyrics

If there's been one less hour of darkness

I might have taken a photograph

And revealed all the secrets

Of your face

I've been staring down a wooded steep

Across the lake in August heat

Trying to hold water

In its place

But there are no stars

To hold this light

No difference between

Day and night

No holy wars

To spill our blood

No offerings

To moon or sun

No bodies rendered

Up from bogs

No sacrifice

To any cause

No one walks on water

In this world

There are lights over the horizon

No one has ever explained

There are pulses in your veins

I'll never catch

Yesterday the moon turned north

The satellites fell off their course

The Earth felt like a poet

Choosing paths