Blue Is A River

Blue remembers Blue like a planet to a spaceman Blue river of my tears Like the heather on the hillside As they drove us from the highlands Like the ice flow from the Arctic Where we landed in Newfoundland There's a colour to my sorrow There's a name for all this sadness Like the ocean in between us I am blue Blue is a river Blue remembers Blue water running clear Blue like a planet to a spaceman Blue river of my tears So I came here to the city Where the dream burns like a furnace And I dazzled in these dark streets Like a diamond in a coalface Till the cold wind from the islands Blew a storm cloud across the new moon Like the gun-smoke above the houses In my home Blue is a river Blue remembers Blue water running clear Blue like a planet to a spaceman Blue river of my tears Blue river of my tears