O, Porcupine-MeWithoutYou

[ti:O, Porcupine] [ar:MeWithoutYou] [al:Brother, Sister] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]O, Porcupine - MeWithoutYou [00:21.90]Without a queen the locust swarm [00:24.18]Turned the ground to black [00:25.91] [00:29.02]Descending like a shadowy tower opon a fish's back [00:32.31] [00:35.92]And scattered the sticks who crawled [00:37.85]Like snakes in the sand [00:39.79] [00:42.44]As the red clay took the form of a lizard [00:45.44]Who rushed like a moth to the flame of my open hand [00:48.49] [00:49.69]My little worldin my sad little world [00:52.55] [00:56.54]Then a speckled bird humbly inspired [00:59.42]Ran across the road when it could have flown [01:03.37]And it made me smile [01:04.53] [01:05.08]And at the water's edge Babylon [01:08.39]As we lay and slept [01:09.88] [01:10.60]The river wept for you Zion [01:13.23] [01:13.89]The stones cry out [01:15.08]Bells shake the sky [01:16.99]All of creation groans [01:18.16] [01:18.73]Shhh [01:20.30] [01:24.60]Listen to it [01:25.19] [01:26.43]Messes of men in farmer poverty [01:28.47] [01:29.52]Not much for monks but we pretend to be [01:32.21]Share a silent meal and a pot of chamomile [01:35.69]Gypsies like us should be stamped in solidarity [01:38.79] [01:39.59]And I held you in my fond but distant memory [01:43.04]While waiting for the mother hen to gather me [01:45.91]Who regretfully wrote [01:47.39] [01:47.96]You have a decent ear for notes [01:49.84] [01:50.96]But you can't yet appreciate harmony [01:53.24] [02:00.94]O porcupine low in the tree your eyes to mine [02:05.88]'You'd be well inclined not to mess with me' [02:09.16]And at the garden's edge beneath a speechless sky [02:12.70]As his friends slept [02:14.10]Jesus wept and it's no wonder why [02:17.93]You wanna be set free [02:19.63]You wanna set me free [02:21.36]Well that can only come from [02:22.88]A union with the one who never dies [02:24.90]In my little world in my sad little world [02:28.58]I patched a plaster wall [02:30.79] [02:32.03]In my little world [02:33.43]I was waiting just dying [02:35.56]To take offense at something [02:37.11]In my little world in my [02:39.28]Little world in my sad little world [02:42.15] [02:43.34]This is all there is in my little world [02:45.62] [03:39.98]In darkness a light shines [03:44.14]On me [03:45.48] [03:47.01]In darkness a light shines [03:51.27]On you [03:52.48] [03:55.83]Oh what'd I say [03:57.22]I never gathered figs from a thorny branch [03:59.40]Oh what'd I say [04:00.55]I never picked a grape off a bramble bush [04:03.16]Oh what'd I say [04:04.14]For the past five almost six years now [04:06.09]Our Lord is come [04:06.94]You haven't once looked at me with kindness in your eyes [04:09.52]Oh what'd I say [04:10.38]Judas is a brother of mine [04:11.75]Oh what'd I say [04:12.91]Oh but sister in our darkness a light shines [04:15.58]Oh what'd I say [04:16.61]The rest of my life [04:17.84]Oh What'd I say [04:19.21]And through I've been mistaken on this or that point [04:22.04] [04:23.24]That light is God