White Doves
Please don’t wake the dead for me
I just need to feel your energy
Hold it close to me like a cherished piece
of time and feel your open mind
Please don’t be afraid to speak
all the secrets you’d entrust to me
I’m no perfect soul but if you’d forgive me
I would hold them close forever
Chorus
See, I’m my own prison and my own prison warder
and I’ve never made keys for any other
but when you look at me with your whole heart forward
the walls come tumblin’ down
There’s so much pain in inspiration
I used to dwell on separation
but how can we be different in our views of this nation
and still hold each other tonight?
I’m gonna take every part of me
that I fight in letting go
Give it up to the angels, wrestling life
like a time-encrusted soul
I’m gonna take every living mirror
walkin’ round in different skin
I’m gonna look at them with my whole heart forward
let the saints come marchin’ in.
I’m gonna stay on the path in front of me
it’s the only one that leads me true
And it’s a strange twist of fate and a strange little world
that lead me back to you
Chorus
Can we wake the dead again
with our songs and our love and our love-makin’?
I don’t know but there’s just something sayin’
Don’t go back to sleep.
Please don’t lay the bait for me
I’ve got so much rage inside of me
gathered in a bouquet of heart-breakin’ beauty
like everyone else here tonight.
Please don’t take these souls from me
I need them here to manifest peace
All the precious ones with infinity
Tattooed in light above their eyes.
We’re we’re own prisons and our own prison warders…
Chorus
So don’t swing low sweet chariot
I’m gonna gather all my love
Put it into words and send it out on songs
like ships of white doves
Well there’s really only one simple explanation
how we can be so different and have this sensation
We’re a part of a piece of divine inspiration
and no label speaks its name
I love you, Dr. Kissenger
I love you, George Bush
I love you evangelical Christians
I love you who burn the woods
I love you all who make things right
and I love who make things wrong
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.
Love is the first and only song
Chorus
Please don’t wake the dead for me
I just need to feel your energy
Hold it close to me
like a cherished piece of time
and feel your open mind
