Innocence Mission--Glow

KEEPING AWAKE

hearing your voice in the blue light,
claming people in the house,
traveling upstairs -
good to be there
now, right now

CHORUS:
Oh, I'm near to sleeping, I'm keeping awake.
Oh, I'm near to sleeping, I'm keeping awake,
hearing your voice in the house, in the house,
hearing your voice in the house

Under those trees we will all be
sitting, blankets down.
It's tomorrow, yes it is.

REPEAT CHORUS

My room is held in someone's arms,
my bed is held in someone's arms.
I am-I'm held now
In the house,
in the heart of paper vines,
Junie runs into her room
next to mine, Dancing.
And we are all in for the night.
Talking is coming,
is coming up over the stairs.


BRIGHT AS YELLOW

And you live life with your arms reached out.
Eye to eye when speaking.
Enter rooms with great joy shouts,
happy to be meeting.

CHORUS:
And bright,
bright,
bright, as yellow,
warm as yellow

And I do now want to be a rose
I do not wish to be pale pink,
but flower scarlet, flower gold.
And have no thorns to distance me,

REPEAT CHORUS

Even if I'm shining, even if I'm shining here inside.
Even if I'm shouting do you see that I'm wanting,
that I want to be so

REPEAT CHORUS


BRAVE

You paint a tulip red with joy.
You say the psalm, I will not fear.
Somehow, knowing what you do know,
still you tremble out and in

You cry up in your room
Aunt Ruthie comes.  You cannot sitll your limbs.
Somehow, knowing what you do know
still you tremble out and in.

CHORUS:
You see how I go to pieces, 
that I'm laying on the ground
like the sky is so heavy
when I could be
Brave.

And I always go to pieces.
And I have it in my mind
that the sky is tall and heavy,
when I could be brave, brave

You go outside.  You see the Holy Spirit
burning in your trees
and walk on, glowing with the same glow.
Still you tremble out and in.

And the birds of all your yellow teacups sing,
and you know this hymn.
Somehow, knowing what you know
still you tremble out and in

REPEAT CHORUS

Oh I know it, I know it, here is God beside.
I meant it.  I meant I'm sure of that.
But the sky is tall and heavy,
when I could be brave,
Brave.


THAT WAS ANOTHER COUNTRY

Rowing out into the air.
Taking blankets to the bay. It's the same
And he was fine,
and, in the first place, was around.
That was another country, that was another country.

I'm taking these dumb paper lanterns down.
Yards, no, miles they strung along.
And me with them.  And how was I 
supposed to know about that?
That was another country, that was another country

Are you alright, are you alright?
You are my friend, are you alright?

Rowing into the air
Driving home, home from the bay.  And we sang.
And he was fine
And what is more, he was around
That was another country, that was another country

But are you alright, are you alright?
You are still my friend, you didn't go out of my life


SPEAK OUR MINDS

I'm leaning down, I'm reaching to the lawn
It is shining, shining with the weather.
Recent sorrows have not touched the sky.
We walk to Mary's and speak our minds.

We're trying not to say it isn't fair.
We are crossing over to the tree side.
Oh I am not feeling all that tired.
We walk to Mary's, and speak our minds

This street light says we should go on
through the tall buildings, to the sound.
Oh my own true friend, my friedn and I,
we walk to Mary's and speak our minds.
Home, paint the kitchen and speak our minds.


HAPPY , THE END

In this story
we sti down on Lunda Bridgs
and catch snow in our cupped hands
and music is coming from the houses
or it sings inside me
I begin to mind
Oh happy, oh happy, the end,
the end, the end.

In this painting 
the whole world is navy blue
I run home from the mailbox
in all the dim of five o'clock
to see you.
Cars and trees go by me,
you are in the yard
and in my arms again
Oh happy, oh happy, the end,
the end , the end
Happy, oh happy
the end.


OUR HARRY

We will squint into the sun,
waving madly at the camera
Harry standing in the front
And I will be sitting on his shoulders

CHORUS:
When our Harry sails in the summer
When our Harry will sail away
Our Harry sails in the summer, 
far from me,
across the sea

He said it is time now he does something
and sent his hope to join the Peace Corps.
I can't think what I'll do when my time comes,
I cannot see myself standing alone

REPEAT CHORUS


GO

Georgia, it grew in the night when you thought it was tired,
and how can it always recover and come
and want to whirl you around with your eyes closed, 
no matter how you say:  I won't go, go.

Georgia, we follow along, it goes pretty far.
You go ahead, I'm going to wait in the car.
Instead of run with my feet when they won't go.
Okay I will, but I don't know.  Go,
go

And you would think now hope would be tired, but it's alright.
You would think now hope would be tired but it's alright
You would think tired, ragged and oil-brown 
but it's alright

And I know it seems useless,
I know how it always turns out

Georgia, since everything's possible we will still go, go.

And you would think now hope would be tired but it's alright, 
it's alright


EVERYTHING'S DIFFERENT NOW

Now we're in the yard.
Aunt Mary's car is coming, coming.
And all of our plans
are giants in this light.

CHORUS:
now that we're coming away.
We are coming away, everything's changed
Everything's different now.
Everything even the sun

You say suddenly you
cannot see yourself out in the world
With your school suitcase
Tomorrow - well, you don't know,
you don't know

REPEAT CHORUS


SPINNING

Harry, another day we will feel better about this
And we'll go through yellow yards, to the library lions
closing our eyes, spinning in autumn.

Harry, another day we will feel better about things.
And we'll dance through yellow yards, like a dress on the line,
closing our eyes, losing this:

I know nothing about so many, too mnay things,
I see I have come to the wall, come to the ending of me again.

I don't know.  I...no.
What are you saying? Why don't you just-
Isn't this, isn't this funny Harry?  All of this:

I know nothing about so many, too many things;
I see I've come to the wall -

I'm turning around now
I'm spinning around now


THERE

It's a long day, a long way into your arms,
a long, long, get up, get up, through a snowy yard.

And I htink you will see me coming udner the sky
And I think you will see me coming And open your arms wide

To be there, be there,
to be there

It's a long day, a long way into your arms
a long, long looking forward, through a straining eye.

And I think you will see me coming under the sky
And I think you will see me coming, and open you arms
I try

to be there, be there,
to be there

And all the clouds are weary whales swimming by to find you
And I'm sorry, sorry how, how slow my steps are
slow as hours

to be there, be there
To be there where you are
To be there where you are


I HEAR YOU SAY SO

I think I hear you saying,
in the green June, now,
singing in, ringing out
I hear you say so

I walk a pale blue mile to my house
in the evenings and I know,
singing in, ringing out
I hear you say so

Say about iron bridges
they rattle the rattle but never give way;
and this boy who is leaving his home,
who is reaching out, says:
yes I'm sure about some things.
When I will be driving away
I will not be along there.  And I know,
I hear you say so
I hear you say so