The White Tent The Raft

There's a red leaf

That falls from a purple tree

It falls it floats down

One red leaf against a clear blue sky

It floats down

Past the marbles in the clearing

Beneath the geese in flight

To the darkening river

In the autumn light

Where it touches down

Oh, like a great bird landing

Tears of autumn

There's a white tent that sits

In the middle of a raft

That floats down

Floats down the middle of a river

Of a stream floating down

And the tears streaming

From the mind's eye

Streaming back beyond

The white sheets that flap and fly

Oh, tears of wanting

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

Fists and chests

Oh Mango in the clearing

It's his leg or something

Waiting

Everything would be alright

Watching the trees

Then his toes

Then the trees

Deeper into the jungle

And leaves him there

We turn off the t.v.

Never forget that night

Never heard you

Couldn't sleep

Hotel window

Get up to those dark peaks

Everything would be

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

Fists and chests

And when it's not our great overcoat

It's a grey and yellow dress

So beautiful the bees

They followed you through the mall

To the clearing in the wilderness

And you lay down and I picked you up

And I said you must never leave

Your beautiful hands

Like knitting needles

And I said- it's Jane, it's me

She said -

When you go that's when you go

Lighten up and pass the cup

Fifty bucks and that's all you got?

Yeah, I love you

There's a white tent that sits

In the middle of a raft that floats down

Floats down the middle of a river

Of a stream floating down

And the tears streaming

From the mind's eye

Streaming back beyond the white sheets

That flap and fly

Oh, tears of hardness

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

Fists and chests

Found the snake in the clearing

And it tried to kill him of course

But then...only after it tried to get away

He said -

Youse the meanest ugliest low-down

And he cursed and swore

Gonna shoot the damn thing

(I'll never let nobody hurt you)

I watched from the raft

And I withdrew my scent

It's not hard to kill a snake

It's not hard

It's not hard to kill a snake

It's not that hard

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

Fists and chests

What do you mean I love you

Stop saying I love you

I don't know what you mean anyway

I don't know what love is and...

You don't know what love is and...

It doesn't change anything anyway

Ah...who cares

Who gives a...

Because all I see

Is more hate

More fear

Less light than before me

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

Fists and chests

Get off my branch...

Stick legs -they are not

This is my tree

It's getting lighter

I'm talking to you

Turn down your radio

Dawn is coming - run!

Every morning when the sun comes up

As loud as he can Get Up! Get Up!

Yeah, I love you I love you a lot

Lighten up and pass the cup

There's a thousand white tents

On a thousand rafts all floating down

There's a thousand fists

And a thousand chests

They come thundering down

And the tears streaming

From a thousand eyes

Streaming back beyond the white sheets

That flap and fly

Oh, tears of hunger

There's a white tent that blows

In the middle of a raft

That floats down down the middle

Of a long and lonely dream

Or is it lovely? can't always tell...

And the clearings pass

Like blowing scarves

The slightly familiar

The slightly apart

And the river never runs dry

Oh, tears of open

The white tent the raft

The white tent the raft

And one red leaf

For my love...

For your love...