The White Tent The Raft (LP版)-Jane Siberry

[ti:The White Tent The Raft (LP Version)] [ar:Jane Siberry] [al:The Walking] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The White Tent The Raft (LP版) - Jane Siberry [00:00.23]There's a red leaf [00:01.71]That falls from a purple tree [00:03.94]It falls it floats down [00:06.12] [00:09.32]One red leaf against a clear blue sky [00:12.98]It floats down [00:15.35] [00:16.88]Past the marbles in the clearing [00:18.93]Beneath the geese in flight [00:21.00] [00:21.62]To the darkening river [00:23.19] [00:23.74]In the autumn light [00:25.85]Where it touches down [00:29.41] [00:30.97]Oh like a great bird landing [00:33.63] [00:36.70]Tears of autumn [00:39.09] [00:41.84]There's a white tent that sits [00:43.92]In the middle of a raft [00:45.82]That floats down [00:47.92] [00:50.37]Floats down the middle of a river [00:53.02]Of a stream floating down [00:56.07] [00:58.42]And the tears streaming [01:00.19]From the mind's eye [01:02.56]Streaming back beyond [01:03.65]The white sheets that flap and fly [01:07.02]Oh tears of wanting [01:22.78] [01:23.61]The white tent the raft [01:26.66] [01:27.53]The white tent the raft [01:30.48] [01:31.56]The white tent the raft [01:34.97] [01:35.88]Fists and chests [01:39.35] [01:42.19]Oh Mango in the clearing [01:43.79] [01:46.71]It's his leg or something [01:48.49] [01:50.38]Waiting [01:51.25] [01:52.83]Everything would be alright [01:56.03] [01:58.69]Watching the trees [01:59.99] [02:01.28]Then his toes [02:02.88] [02:04.87]Then the trees [02:05.97] [02:09.34]Deeper into the jungle [02:10.48]And leaves him there [02:12.63] [02:13.78]We turn off the tv [02:15.51] [02:16.53]Never forget that night [02:18.05] [02:23.15]Never heard you [02:23.98] [02:26.49]Couldn't sleep [02:27.26] [02:27.97]Hotel window [02:29.22]Get up to those dark peaks [02:31.49]Everything would be [02:33.21] [02:34.11]The white tent the raft [02:37.52] [02:38.07]The white tent the raft [02:42.11]The white tent the raft [02:46.32]Fists and chests [02:51.94] [02:52.51]And when it's not our great overcoat [02:55.68]It's a grey and yellow dress [02:57.77] [02:58.68]So beautiful the bees [03:00.21]They followed you through the mall [03:01.91] [03:02.64]To the clearing in the wilderness [03:05.30] [03:07.28]And you lay down and I picked you up [03:10.86]And I said you must never leave [03:14.08] [03:15.32]Your beautiful hands [03:16.83] [03:18.18]Like knitting needles [03:18.97]And I said it's Jane it's me [03:21.85] [03:23.02]She said [03:23.93]When you go that's when you go [03:25.74] [03:27.75]Lighten up and pass the cup [03:29.67] [03:32.02]Fifty bucks and that's all you got [03:34.05] [03:36.14]Yeah I love you [03:38.16] [03:40.24]There's a white tent that sits [03:42.26]In the middle of a raft that floats down [03:45.49] [03:48.55]Floats down the middle of a river [03:51.17]Of a stream floating down [03:53.99] [03:56.34]And the tears streaming [03:58.20]From the mind's eye [04:00.59]Streaming back beyond the white sheets [04:02.90]That flap and fly [04:05.16]Oh tears of hardness [04:20.28] [04:21.54]The white tent the raft [04:24.99] [04:25.57]The white tent the raft [04:29.25] [04:29.77]The white tent the raft [04:33.35] [04:34.12]Fists and chests [04:39.90]Found the snake in the clearing [04:41.96]And it tried to kill him of course [04:44.32]But then only after it tried to get away [04:49.40] [04:50.36]He said [04:50.83] [04:51.42]Youse the meanest ugliest low down [04:55.28]And he cursed and swore [04:57.56]Gonna shoot the damn thing [04:59.83]I watched from the raft [05:01.70]And I withdrew my scent [05:04.39]It's not hard to kill a snake [05:06.71]It's not hard [05:08.02]It's not hard to kill a snake [05:10.32]It's not that hard [05:13.57]The white tent the raft [05:16.86] [05:17.37]The white tent the raft [05:21.40]The white tent the raft [05:25.15] [05:25.76]Fists and chests [05:30.29]What do you mean I love you [05:31.71]Stop saying I love you [05:33.17] [05:33.94]I don't know what you mean anyway [05:36.81] [05:38.39]I don't know what love is and [05:40.32]You don't know what love is and [05:42.21]It doesn't change anything anyway [05:45.76]Ah who cares [05:48.69]Who gives a [05:50.62]Because all I see [05:54.05] [05:54.57]Is more hate [05:56.96]More fear [05:59.03]Less light than before me [06:03.24]The white tent the raft [06:06.19] [06:06.97]The white tent the raft [06:10.51] [06:11.13]The white tent the raft [06:14.84] [06:15.64]Fists and chests [06:20.67] [07:09.09]There's a thousand white tents [07:10.98]On a thousand rafts all floating down [07:15.22] [07:17.21]There's a thousand fists [07:18.57]And a thousand chests [07:20.21]They come thundering down [07:24.04] [07:25.56]And the tears streaming [07:27.30]From a thousand eyes [07:29.53]Streaming back beyond the white sheets [07:32.00]That flap and fly [07:34.12]Oh tears of hunger [07:49.09] [07:50.39]There's a white tent that blows [07:52.37]In the middle of a raft [07:54.42]That floats down down the middle [07:59.57]Of a long and lonely dream [08:02.20]Or is it lovely can't always tell [08:04.93] [08:06.96]And the clearings pass [08:09.01]Like blowing scarves [08:11.39] [08:11.93]The slightly familiar [08:13.87]The slightly apart [08:15.37] [08:21.55]And the river never runs dry [08:25.32] [08:27.41]Oh tears of open [08:31.01] [08:32.08]The white tent the raft [08:35.16] [08:36.16]The white tent the raft [08:39.42] [08:40.36]And one red leaf [08:44.56] [08:45.53]For my love [08:48.67] [08:49.92]For your love