Give Me a Hammer

Give me a hammer, I'll dig up the sky
Give me a pomegranate seed, I'll plant it in the night
When the morning comes and the day is done
I'll take a swim in your blue eyes

What is love but a life on the cross, I'm hanging out to dry

Give me a wooden boat and a handful of gold
I'll give it to the ferryman to hide me in the hold
I found peace by a river to the east
But I lost it on the road

What is time but an unfinished rhyme, skipping as it flows

There's a haar across Northumberland, there's a mist upon the moor
Down by Druridge Bay there's smoke upon the water
I hold my hands and weep on my knees on the beach
I'm crying out for more

What is a prayer but a breath of air when I've gone and lost it all

I have heard it all before there's nothing new to me
Ink on a page or written in blood, it's a line drawn through my memory
I leant my lines word for word in a book from Galilee

What is a word but an echo of a bird singing in a tree