When She Dreams of Christmas

Never grieve the evergreen
Cut up from the earth
In this sacred season
As we celebrate a birth

Cover it with anything
To let us see the light
As we listen to the music
And we cradle her tonight

The roots go deeper
Away out in the yard
While the moon is sleeping
In her arms

When she dreams
She'll remember
All the joy and wonder
In the story of a star
All the love of family
All the seeds of mystery
She will see
Beneath the tree
When she dreams of Christmas

Every year we gather here
To light the light again
Now she is here to remind us
Of why this all began

The roots go deeper
Than any one of us
But all of us together
Are the promise and the trust

When she dreams
She'll remember
All the joy we gave her
In the story of a star
All the love of family
All the seen and unseen
She will meet
Beneath the tree
When she dreams of Christmas

To Let You Go

I wake up in a memory
I cannot put my dream to sleep
I feel you in the room with me
I feel the darkness in the deep
You step so lightly on the sand
And thread the liquid undertow
But I can’t hold you by the hand
I have to learn to let you go

Again we spin inside a dance
Upon the edge of our last day
So little life fits in a chance
To look for words I cannot say
We move together on the sand
And thread the liquid undertow
I couldn’t hold you by the hand
I had to learn to let you go

I can’t reduce you to a song
I can’t remake a memory
I must admit that I was wrong
To keep you in this room with me
I see the darkness in the stream
I slip into the undertow
When I can free you from my dream
I will have learned to let you go

The Deep

A presence on the sea tonight
I see it in the water
I feel it in the undertow
In the shadow that I cast
Where the moonlight is dancing
In the dark disturbances
There is something rising up
From the deep

As the ocean comes ashore
I make a wall between us
Words of sand to hide behind
To keep my soul unseen
No matter where I lay them
All these words will wash away
There is something rising up
From the deep

There are voices in the wind
They are offers to begin again
Now I'm scared to hear that sound
If I follow, will I drown?
But I stand still and listen
And I cannot turn away
There is something rising up
From the deep

Let my soul sink in the sea
Let it wash all over me
Let it rise up from the deep
From the deep inside
There's nowhere left to hide
From the deep inside

Go Now to the Mountain

Go and do the work, my son
Go now to the mountain
Find the source and drink it in
At the ancient fountain

You've heard the call in everything
As present as your breath
In every song, in every sound
In every little death

Go now to the mountain
Every road is leading there
Go now to the mountain
Every road is leading there

Don't listen to distraction, now
Just let yourself be led
Away now to the mountaintop
Through the valley of the dead

The holy star is in the sky
But turn your eyes within
Your soul already knows the way
Let it lead you in

Go now to the mountain
Every road is leading there
Go now to the mountain
Every road is leading there

Underneath the evergreen
Unseen under the sky
A glimmer in the space between
The starlight and the eye

It's everywhere
You know it is
You've seen it in your dreams
Nothing of the world you know
Is solid as it seems

Go now to the mountain
Every road is leading there
Go now to the mountain
Every road is leading there