 songs & lyrics See How Both Of You Will Fly (This Side of Paradise, 2001) although there's so much happening on the ground i can't take my eyes away from the sky. it started one dawn in pipestone, i was walking in the milky light when two birds flew by. i knew who they were supposed to be i was waiting for the 'why?' when the spirit knelt and whispered, "see how both of you will fly." some say when two walk side by side they lock themselves in a cage tied to the ground but these two birds - alive - possessed a burning joy that silenced all such sound. and they wheeled and danced and soared making gravity a lie. in the car crash of this world decided that despair must die. see how both of you will fly. i've come to understand that a symbol's power can keep you alive when it's darkest night. i've stood in crowds, on mountaintops seen them set on fire by light but mostly kind of whispered like leather on a knife gifts of hope to wait on and watch play out into life such as: see how both of you will fly. sometimes when you think a symbol's time has come two birds fly past again. it's the same word, perhaps a different verb given a new spin. and one day when you're wondering if the sentence ever ends you see/hear/feel the click and it blossoms like the smile of a friend. see how both of you will fly. will you believe as i believe that magic need never end? that everything that's broken one day we will see mend? as the unseen brings new life each morning and the river makes the desert sigh I heard the spirit whisper, "see how both of you will fly." 25 June 1998 Medicine Wheel Ranch, Saskatchewan, Canada. |