A Mirror To The Past (映照过往的明镜)-Matthew Lien

[00:00.00]===A Mirror To The Past ==== [00:01.00]From the "Caribou Commons" CD [00:02.00](c)(p) Matthew Lien / Whispering Willows Music 1999 [00:03.00]* Edited by Yanwu Hoo * [00:05.00] [00:33.50]Held within a sacred place [00:37.99]Antiquity in shades of grace [00:42.40]The lines you carve upon the ground [00:46.39]Are lines within the Elder's face [00:49.98] [00:50.92]Something is becoming clear [00:55.17]Everything is ancient here [00:59.31]The rivers flowing 'cross the plains [01:03.36]The hills that over look the same [01:06.89] [01:07.33]And you are the wind that blows throughout [01:11.76]You are so hard to sing about [01:15.90]You are the blood within my veins [01:20.19]A mirror to the past remains [01:32.17] [01:43.92]Turning back the page of time [01:47.37]The hour-glass of arctic sands [01:51.75]Reveals a former common ground [01:55.75]The Great Plains of the southern lands [01:59.93] [02:00.25]Dark upon the golden plain [02:04.39]Shadows still recount the view [02:08.59]The nation of the buffalo [02:12.61]The nation of the caribou [02:16.99] [03:10.68] [03:12.13]The tribes across the southern plains [03:15.78]With weathered eyes and standing tall [03:20.28]Have heard the cries and felt the pain [03:24.18]To see the mighty nations fall [03:27.87] [03:28.70]Now blowing through the empty hall [03:32.67]The leaves of summer turned to fall [03:37.03]With Sandhill Cranes a last recall [03:41.03]To wild things that shared it all [03:44.92] [03:45.53]And you are the wind that blows without [03:49.31]You are so hard to sing about [03:53.31]You are the blood within my veins [03:57.95]A mirror to the past remains