The earth is pulling, and I'm on my feet I'm adrift in the evening sun's glow It's been a long hot summer, I've been going slow Dropping every tempo to my own Beyond the next corner lies a field of cob Last winter its skeletons froze Now the drought leaves cracks in the earth I look on with the eyes of Van Gogh In a quiet corner of a lonely town All the rooftops are outgrown by corn On a porch enthroned, fifteen feet apart An old couple in clothes they've outworn Beyond the next corner, a sunflower field Last springtime we pulled up and posed Now their heads are weighing them down It's the weight of how beauty implodes Now I turn my eye back onto myself Counting back to the day I arrived There's a soothing stillness in the fields around And I'm feeling how time's on my side Beyond the next corner something unfolds Life leaves a twist in the road It's time to go home, but before I turn I breath the sunlight right into my bones There've been many days, when my heart was closed Feeling this world could not be my home But I've found that I am, like the world around A light that holds life on its own Beyond the next corner, my life extends Whether I go there or turn Of all the truths that glow in the sun Maybe this was the one thing to learn There are earthly pullings, there are soothing lights They will catch you and cure you of need From below the surface, and from high above There's a stillness washing over me Beyond every corner I'll find a place To where my closed heart can return Of all the bridges that I've kept alive Maybe this is the best one to burn