Story Behind The Song
Spring was coming - things coming back to life that looked dead
Song Description
Survival in difficult times
| Song Length |
4:30 |
Genre |
Rock - Progressive Rock, Rock - Psychedelic |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Composed, Anxious |
Subject |
General, Determination |
| Similar Artists |
Fleetwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
It's not a bird, it's not a squirrel
It's not the wind hanging on the edge of return
It's surging up from deep in the frozen ground
A breath drawn out like a splinter
That makes these branches shudder
Like a diver that's been under too long
Crossing the line that almost crossed you out
Crashing through winter's spellbound walls
Arms spring elastic sunward
The air resounds with cascading chains that fall
And shatter to the ground with a shudder
Leaving uncovered a trembling naked hand
As you cross the line that almost crossed you out
Your hunger's been left too long
Your will is numb and thick
But now your wooly comfort
Strips you awake with a sweaty itch
Your blood stirs like a hunter
Your prey is locked in sight
Moving from the cover
Freed to let your aim take flight
And you shudder like the string of a bow
As you cross the line that almost crossed you out
Free fall from the ledge of fear
Where your fictions hover
The life you dreamed that seemed so hard and clear
Is ripped away with a shudder
As you cross the line that almost crossed you out
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