Al Costado Del Camino

By the side of the road
Travels the clear trail that will bring you back
To lost love
To the start of your skin
A broken mirror
Reflecting your childhood

Where the scream stretches long
And where the fire waits to feel its heat
There will be a blind angel
Watching your pain
Every broken thorn
Every moon and every sun

And so you stand up to love again
Despite the hunger and the distance
And on your way to the center you go
Of your thick, mineral land

So much rain drawn
And so many deaf towns where the wind spoke to me
There’s not a still tree
Everything rushes toward the flower
Guarding the air
The memory and the song

By the side of the road
Travels the star armed with the children of a god
Dispossessed and crazy
Vulnerable, sinner
Miraculous and clumsy
Militant, deserter

And so you stand up to love again
Despite the hunger and the distance
And on your way to the center you go
Of your thick, mineral land

And on your way to the center you go
Of your thick, mineral land