When you fell in the rocks
At the bend in the river
With the blood from your nose

Running hard on your fingers
And through the rest of your life


The electric charge
Of a change in the weather
You were touching my arm

You were holding a feather
And then I opened my eyes


And the World goes racing, suddenly changed
As the shock of the axe, it leaves you trembling
Like a busting shell in the small of your back

Or a job that's hard on the cast of your little lie
And an animal life was surging away


And you were back on the road
Through the worst of the Winter
Through the Valley of Lies

Passing through like an arrow

Oh, if your vision collapsed

And a storm from the river
Like a golden medalion
Clutching tight in your fingers

But on the slope of the edge
Will you recover your life


You could stand on the back of a shuddering beam
With a pistol firing shots into the air
You could run in the blood of the Sun's hard rays

You could drive the mountains down into the bay
Or go back to the East where it's all so civilized
Where I was born to the life


But I am leaving the life
I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life
I am leaving the life
I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life
I am leaving the life
I am leaving the life

I am leaving