David Byrne & St. Vincent - The Forest Awakes lyrics

The Forest awakes A desert at dawn A mountain at night And the river moves on The people awake They're marching along The streets are alive With a terrible song Forwards and backwards in ev'ry direction The atom's perpetual motion The shifting of light on the banks of the river I'm free but I'm keeping my clothes on We're marching along The street where you live I'm calling your name The song is a gift A song is a road A road is a face A face is a time And a time is a place A place of belief and a time of confusion The heart is a simple equation With beautiful words and with beautiful people A song is a face is a mountain A fruit that falls before it's grown I heard a sound and bird has flown It breaks pieces above the forest A million particles born today Out beyond the blue horizon Air cannot escape Underneath the weeping willow I can see your face Free form - climbing all over me Creatures great and small Doctors - pulling them out of you Hideous, virtuous, both of us Come - in my kitchen When it rains outside Sweet inspiration Sneaks up from behind The forest is true I know for a fact That the bigger the front The bigger the back My heart beating still Through the perilous night The bombs burst in air But my hair is all right The shifting of light on the trees and the houses I drown in an ocean of perfume The strangeness of words, how the meaning keeps changing But somehow the beauty will find you