David Byrne & St. Vincent - The Forest Awakes lyrics

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The Forest awakes… A desert at dawn

A mountain at night… And the river moves on

The people awake… They’re marching along

The streets are alive… With a terrible song

Forwards and backwards in ev’ry direction

The atom’s perpetual motion

The shifting of light on the banks of the river

I’m free but I’m keeping my clothes on

We’re marching along… The street where you live

I’m calling your name… The song is a gift

A song is a road… A road is a face

A face is a time… And a time is a place

A place of belief and a time of confusion

The heart is a simple equation

With beautiful words and with beautiful people

A song is a face is a mountain

A fruit that falls before it’s grown

I heard a sound and bird has flown

It breaks pieces above the forest

A million particles born today

Out beyond the blue horizon—air cannot escape

Underneath the weeping willow—I can see your face

Free form—climbing all over me

Creatures great and small

Doctors—pulling them out of you

Hideous, virtuous, both of us

Come—in my kitchen—when it rains outside

Sweet inspiration—sneaks up from behind

The forest is true… I know for a fact

That the bigger the front… The bigger the back

My heart beating still… Through the perilous night

The bombs burst in air… But my hair is all right

The shifting of light on the trees and the houses

I drown in an ocean of perfume

The strangeness of words, how the meaning keeps changing

But somehow the beauty will find you