Across the Sky

My baby told me not to run
Said it would never do
But I've been running all my days
That's how I got to you
My baby told me not to hide
Said it just can't be done
But I've been running all my life
And now it's just begun, it's just begun
Running from the gate of birth
On down that hidden path
Hiding from the coin of worth
And from the serpent's wrath

I headed out upon my own
Carved circles in the sand
I heard that whistling in my bones
Saw the lines in my hand
I saw your traces in the sky
How evening crept on through
How every truth became a lie
The only truth was you
I crawled out to the mountainside
I stretched out on the beach
I took a look way down inside
I saw but could not reach

The father holds a photograph
The mother holds the kid
Well, he got tossed out with the trash
He don't know what he did
The season's page is turning now
The moon in hanging low
See his rage turn to yearning now
But who'd he gonna show
You know it is a sad embrace
That never has to cry
For tears must be the touch of grace
And every heart must sigh

So when I see you run away
I say that can't be done
But you've been running all your days
You taught me how to run
And when I see you go and hide
Must that be what you do
Come on and stay here by my side
Together we'll go through
I hear a graceful melody
As I feel you pass by
Is it really you I see
In touch across the sky