Fatherlight - Faded Paper Figures

We are leaving our time now

We are leaving our time now

There are places where time moves more slowly than here

We honor all four directions

East, West, North, South…

In the fatherlight

I lost my compass and I lost my sight

At the fireside

I sat too close and then I burned my eyes

And was it temperament

That kept us from saying all the things we meant?

Fatherlight

Fatherlight

Fatherlight

Hear the city call

With faster highways and with alcohol

Can we synchronize

With time so different, generation-wise?

And was it temperament

That kept us from saying all the things we meant?

In the countryside

(so many things now I cannot tell you)

I lost my country when I left your side

(the broken bones of a shattered world view)

Now you think I’m gone

(and in the ER lights I saw you)

But take my hand and let me prove you wrong…

(reaching up like you thought you might break through)

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And we also honor the fifth direction

The vertical one

Which is in us

Today, here