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