Larkspur and Lazarus

The empty streets The songs of twilight The clouds at rest The church bells chiming A scarecrow shudders And songbirds tremble I looked at you and saw its time The faded flowers The faded pictures Of faded lives Your body waiting And unfulfilled With no regrets And empty heart And head in hands I heard them say today "It's time" The sunset heavy On mother mountain The cattle lowing The cattle dreaming The endless rain In haunted airs Your loss of hope We were shown We were shown it's only time The smell of rain The twilight leaning Against your lips Waterwheels turning The forests brooding You took my hand And pointed, full of pain That fishes dying You saw the sign that this was time I waited years for you Or so it seemed And stumbled through your world Praying for just one kiss To stop my fall from grace And shelter in your palm You gave me everything Both lock and key The oil clouds see it's only time If I could have one wish As in the fairy tales I would unmake my past And rise like Lazarus And stand in sunlight And banish all the dark That locked my face away And say to you again "Oh that, that was only time" So willow, weep not for me And oak, bend not for me Though others died for us And in our place Though in the secret heart Raw wound, raw source of all I heard the news today Whispered in the dark At last, at last, we know it's time I knew at last It's only time I'll come in glory End of story