The Crossing

I woke up screaming

but no one heard the drying river shining

to the breathing world (what was I dreaming of...)

and I missed all the gardens all the animals' footprints fresh in the rain

now there is only the train the beast gives wait

another master another day

in the borderlands

cities forgotten

borderlands crossing over me

so wipe the tears from your cheekbones

and the blood from your fingers

we are the ghosts in the theater of human rights

just beyond their security lights

in the borderlands cities forgotten

borderlands crossing over me

to the borderlands

rivers and mountains

borderlands

crossing over me

(crossed me)

this world is bigger than this

bigger than lines drawn by governments

illusions we're tracked by your eyes always watching

just like the cameras twisting 'round this place

out 24,000 miles in space

always so cold and so clear

but how do we get to the world from here?

crash the system's hate from the factory floor to the white house gate

crush the system's hate

from the maquiladora to the White House gate

to the borderlands cities forgotten (crossing over)

borderlands

crossing over me

to the borderlands

rivers and mountains

borderlands

crossing over me