by Leo Kottke Copyright 1973 Overdrive Music/ASCAP recorded by Leo Kottke on: 1973 "Ice Water" (Capitol) 1987 "The Best of Leo Kottke" (Capitol) I heard your voice at midnight By the river shore I saw your child sleeping Behind an open door The moon was in the river Shining up from the floor And the fish swam like moonlight Through your child's closing door And morning is the long way home The fisherman was drowning By his broken heel His screams were tiny bubbles And his tongue made of steel When he died his teeth made stones For your lonely child to feel And his eyes like prayers were quiet When you heard his tongues of steel And morning is the long way home The ghost of ghosts was passing And the grasses waved like hair I Knew I'd die forgotten I'm the whisper of your care The water would surround me And my body would despair But my heart would understand The door that's closing there And morning is the long way home
See them tumbling down Pledging their love to the ground Lonely but free I'll be found Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds
Cares of the past are behind Nowhere to go but I'll find Just where the trail will wind Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds
I know when night has gone That a new world's born at dawn
I'll keep rolling along Deep in my heart is a song Here on the range I belong Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds
Drifting, on and on Moving, on and on Wandering, on and on
When I want you in my arms When I want you and all your charms Whenever I want you, all I have to do is Dream, dream, dream, dream
When I feel blue in the night And I need you to hold me tight Whenever I want you, all I have to do is Dream
I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine Anytime night or day Only trouble is, gee whiz I'm dreamin' my life away
I need you so that I could die I love you so and that is why Whenever I want you, all I have to do is Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream
I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine Anytime night or day Only trouble is, gee whiz I'm dreamin' my life away
I need you so that I could die I love you so and that is why Whenever I want you, all I have to do is Dream, dream, dream, dream Dream, dream, dream, dream