Crystal creek-Dar Williams

[ti:Crystal creek] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:In The Time Of Gods] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Crystal creek - Dar Williams [00:06.38]You so fleet and youthful must have split a thousand apples [00:11.19]Oh I watched you as you steadied first your heart then your breath [00:16.45] [00:17.90]Venturing out you scanned a thousand blades of grass [00:22.38]And when you drew your bowstring it was a swift and cordial death [00:28.03] [00:29.98]As you stood in the wilderness [00:33.92] [00:34.74]Did you feel the silence in the stillness [00:39.35] [00:42.85]That was me with you in the forest [00:48.53]For you knew the balances [00:50.90]The balances before us [00:53.96] [00:54.89]I was guarding Crystal Crystal Creek [01:07.26] [01:11.46]Oh a tree it's a record a home of memories [01:17.12]And every bird springs from an old master's canvas full in flight [01:22.75]And the pond I go to sparkles in a vast estuary [01:28.99]And those men saw nothing staring drunken through their sites [01:34.24] [01:35.55]The one who spied me out as goods to plunder [01:40.49]I had to show the world that he was not a true hunter [01:46.69] [01:48.45]That was me [01:49.56] [01:51.20]When he saw me naked [01:54.14]He was interrupting [01:56.58]Something sacred [01:59.59] [02:00.59]I was guarding Crystal Crystal Creek [02:12.89] [02:25.76]And the newsmen circled leaving trails of cigarette butts [02:31.83]Machine-like up the hill to Crystal Creek [02:36.80] [02:37.74]“James ” she said “who would do this thing I've seen today [02:43.17]I cannot hold my mic my hands are shaking knees are weak ” [02:49.91]“They found a man and he was wrapped in a deerskin [02:53.72] [02:54.81]Riddled through with boxes of his friends'ammunition [03:00.65] [03:02.90]Turn the camera off ” she said [03:05.33] [03:11.32]That was me [03:12.45] [03:14.19]Oh my noble animals [03:16.94]You must act with reverence [03:19.33]With reverence not like cannibals [03:22.21] [03:23.46]I was guarding Crystal Crystal Creek