The Travelling
 

lyrics: gw rasberry

music: james campbell, gw rasberry, rob unger
©1999 SOCAN

 

 

for Ted …

Love is the warmth of stone, sun-warmed

and waiting for words we can not name.

                                    —gw

                                                                       

 

So we give ourselves to motion

as the night rewrites the day,

the wheels they speak of travel

and the turning falls away.

 

The road becomes the evening

it bears witness to the song,

distance written on the body

the kind that makes us strong.

 

Love will pull the stars around

Love to love this place we’ve found

Love the love that gathers here

The nightsky whispers in our ear…

 

Words are wings and words are ties

words may never recognize,

but words sail through this pale nightsky

through a tiny planet’s eye

 

Lost is just a feeling

but lost is also found,

lost is just a listening

a gathering of sound.

 

Love will pull the stars around

Love to love this place we’ve found

Love the love that gathers here

The nightsky whispers in our ear…

 

Feel the headlights on the hill tonight

coming down like moons,

through a forest filled with whispersong

a chorus filled with June.

 

We give up all our stories

that don’t remember flight

and we laugh as all our worried words

sail off out of sight.

 

Now bring the nighttime forward

so that we might take our place

listen for the listening,

the hillside whispers grace.

 

Love will pull the stars around

Love to love this place we’ve found

Love the love that gathers here

The nightsky whispers in our ear…