From the recording Surfacing the Wreck
Lyrics
There’s never been a far side of the moon, not really,
It’s keeping to its distance and it’s turning and it’s spinning
It’s who’s next and you next and never will be be giving
It’s taking all the time you need to go on with your living
It’s the deepest of cuts, it’s the name that you gave her
It’s fighting and it’s losing and it’s killing your neighbor
It’s making and unmaking and it’s endings and beginnings
It’s bringing what’s the best of you to moments of misgiving
The dream keeps on rising to its own defense
The morning lies thinking that nighttime’s immense
The patient is dreaming of knives in the night
And the knives that will cut you are all clean and bright
It’s a phantom life, it’s the endless rages
Of discarded rights and unwritten pages
It’s sound and it’s light, and it’s waking at night
It’s a glacier of life and it’s clean and it’s bright
It’s all that you make, and it’s all that you break
And it’s finding the courage to give up on fate
It’s all that you touch and it’s all that you see
It’s the sky and the air and it’s all within me
The dream keeps on rising to its own defense
The morning lies thinking that nighttime’s immense
And the patient is dreaming of knives in the night
And the knives that will cut you are all clean and bright
The dream keeps on rising to its own defense
The morning lies thinking that nighttime’s immense
And the patient is dreaming of knives in the night
And the knives that will cut you are all clean and bright
And the knives that will cut you are all clean and bright
(It’s the deepest of cuts, it’s the name that you gave her
It’s fighting and it’s losing and it’s killing your neighbor)
And the knives that will cut you are all clean and bright
And the knives that will cut you are all clean and bright