Lay Your Cheek on Down

Full of waves and fields

This universe we glide on in misshapen vessels

Afraid of the spray

Just beyond the glass

Fear the scrape of rocks

Just off the path

Just beyond the wall

This route of carved tunnels

To be floating there alone in the water

Would be to be in space alone

Embedded in the stone of the mountain

As in amber

To wrap your arms around the boulder

Because it is the only thing

And the wisest thing around

Lay your cheek on down

Lay your cheek on down

Lay your cheek on down

Lay your cheek on down, down, down

You said you were a traveler

You said you were the wind

You said you were the first one on the moon

That was only the beginning

You said that you had snuck well past this galaxy

By the time the sun had drawn on our faces

Some bronze image

But I say hey

Lay your cheek on down

Lay your cheek on down

Lay your cheek on down, down, down

Lay your cheek on down

Lay your cheek on down