Bluetech - Becoming The Ancestor lyrics

I know where I come from I know where I'll go back in Between the two is mine to sing And yours - if you'll carry the two I know a song you can live off Tall as stacked mountains Curved as rivers labor towards sea I've known singing like a war cry against hunger And singing like the hunger between rains Singing like the rain's first silence Like the silence that teaches breath And like the breath that keeps pace with walking I know where I've been coming from The long way around this world I know a name or two For each time of day and night Each plant gone to seed And each seed when it falls I name each step for a leaf on the big tree I name each breeze for a wave on water I'll never see I name each child for the ancestor she is For the one he'll eventually be Name so the world has a map that fits Not like a suit - but like a shadow Lengthening into night Sharpest when the light is high Yes - I've sung the map Fermenting, sweet, in dried up springs Follow me if you like You know I'm going back in At the place where the song gets deep Into quiet ground Where the map gets back into dreaming And if you've sung the song to place of your name Come on back in with me Or stay and sing around the cycle Another world or two