The fires continued through the night
The kid with a bat face appeared at the window
And disappeared into the headlights
I was halfway to the Pacific Coast
I had left you in your longing
And your yearning like a ghost
There is little room for wonder now
And little room for wildness too
We crawl into our wounds
I'm nearly all the way to Malibu
I'm gonna buy me a house up in the hills

With a tear-shaped pool and a gun that kills
'Cause they say there is a cougar that roams these parts
With a terrible engine of wrath for a heart
That she is white and rare and full of all kinds of harm
And stalks the perimeter all day long
But at night lays trembling in my arms
And I'm just waiting now for my time to come
And I'm just waiting now for my time to come
And I'm just waiting now for my place in the Sun
And I'm just waiting now for peace to come

And I'm just waiting now for my time to come
And I'm just waiting now for my time to come
And we hide in our wounds
I'm nearly all the way to Malibu
And I know my time will come one day soon
I'm waiting for peace to come
I'm nearly all the way to Malibu
Oh babe, we're on the run
We're on the run
We're on the run
Halfway down the Pacific Coast
I left you sleeping like a ghost in your wounds

Darling your dreams are the greatest part
I carry them with me in my heart
Darling your dreams were the greatest part
I carry them with me in my heart

Somewhere
Don't know

Now I'm standing on the shore
And the animals roam the beaches
And sea creatures rise out of the sea
And I'm standing on the shore
Everyone begins to run
The kid drops his bucket and spade and climbs into the Sun

Kisa had a baby, but the baby died
Goes to the villages, says my baby's sick
Villagers shake their heads and say to her
Better bury your baby in the forest quick
It's a long way to find peace of mind, peace of mind
It's a long way to find peace of mind, peace of mind
Kisa went to the mountain and ask the Buddha
My baby's sick, Buddha said don't cry
Go to each house and collect a mustard seed
But only from a house where no one's died
Kisa went to each house in the village
My baby's getting sicker, poor Kisa cried
But Kisa never collected one mustard seed

Because every house, someone had died
Kisa sat down in the old village square
She hugged her baby and cried and cried
She said everybody is always losing somebody
Then walked into the forest and buried her child
Everybody's losing someone
Everybody's losing someone
It's a long way to find peace of mind, peace of mind
It's a long way to find peace of mind, peace of mind
And I'm just waiting now for my time to come
And I'm just waiting now for peace to come, for peace to come

  1. Into my Arms
  2. Song Of The Lake
  3. Slowly Goes The Night
  4. 'I Need You'
  5. Joy
  6. And no more shall we part
  7. Sweetheart come
  8. Skeleton Tree
  9. Conversion
  10. Straight To You
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