Northern Lights Lyrics

You came with the cold

Painting the green mountains

With yellow and gold

The lakes trembled and swayed

Beneath your canoe

I peered through the pines

Watching you float by

This island of mine

The grass, tender and thin,

Lay heavy with dew

You called out to me

In a language I've known

Since before I could speak

Your voice echoed beside

The cries of the loons

I tried to reply

Til the hunger inside me

Brought tears to my eyes

Above, sallow and dim,

Hung the shell of the moon

Hand on my heart

Light in the dark

Bathe me in green and black

Fool that am I

I watched you pass by

And you're never coming back

I wait in the pines year after year

Hoping that someday

Your boat will appear

The lakes, tacet and grim

Grow bitter and cold

And bitted my hate, bitter my strife

Bitter the hard-hearted

Transience of life

I know nothing is gold

Nothing is gold, nothing is gold

Ah, but this hand on my heart

Light in the dark

Bathe me in green and black

Fool that am I

I watched you pass by

And you're never coming back