Peru

You were already talking when I woke up today For a man on combat rations, you sure do find a lot to say Try to fix my attention - can't clear my head Sun clearing the waterline Hot and deadly and red Like the flowers you said you wrote about About a million years ago, you said they grew On a distant mountain in Peru I don't want the water to break you Let me lead you back to the fire You've always got a little further to drop When you've risen that much higher Fear in my heart like a shadow I can't let it lingеr too long When your gift begins to consume you Onе of us will have to be strong Like the flowers that die in the winter But never fail to grow back new In the cracks down in the canyons in Peru In the deep crevices Where you wouldn't think the light could reach Distant as a dream of the cradle On this lonesome beach Let the man whose heart would know peace Praise all the things that he should praise Just about a week in the future These are going to seem like the good days Because the snake is going to rise from the pit And brother will turn against brother We won't have a minute to lose At most we'll only have each other Like the flowers you said you saw when you were young When you were still you Like the flowers you may have imagined Doing what their nature tells them to Worlds away in the wind in Peru