North

There's a place where I'm gonna leave to

When all this questioning is through

I'm gonna set my course to somewhere further north

Than my eyes have ever viewed

And though I know that the thought precedes me

I know that others seek it, too

But when I get where the needle leads me

Well, I swear and I swear you'll never lead me away again

And in the time when the peace of islands

Was first by human hand disturbed

They built their houses and they said obedience

Was all the lives of men were worth

And in the shadows of their temperance

They laid boundaries in the dirt

And when the door had a narrow entrance

With their hands to their shirts

They would pray for the non-believers

And there's a place called North

And they're gathering there to sing

And I knock three times and beg them

But they will not let me in

And oh my girl, they say, you're the carrier to no gift

But I'll lay what I can somewhere north of the sand

Would you turn me away again?

And do you go where the needle leads to?

And when you get there will you change?

Out where the nights are soft

And now you go because you think that paradise should be tamed

And now you live as by a map of humanity

And now you grip it 'cause you think that it saves

But I've seen what you see and it's different to me

I see lights to the shore

And all these hearts beating other rhythms

Now they die to be born

And all their mysteries are dying with them

And there's a place called North

And you're gathering there to sing

And I knock three times and beg you

But you will not let me in

But oh, I loved so hard, now I'm carrier to this gift

And I'll lay what I can somewhere north of the sand

Would you turn me away again?

And would these winds would lift

And they'd carry me to your door

And I knock three times and tell you

I can't help where I was born

But don't I love enough, isn't holiness where it falls?

If I take what I have to the north,

Is there room on your piece of Heaven?

Or would you turn me away again?