O' Porcupine / Yellow Spider (Live)

Without a queen, the locust swarm

Turned the ground to black

Descending like a shadowy tower on a fish's back

And scattered the sticks who crawled

Like snakes in the sand

As the red clay took the form of a lizard

And it rushed like a moth to the flame of my open hand

In my little world

My sad little world

A speckled bird humbly inspired

Ran across the road when it could have flown

And it made me smile

At the water's edge, Babylon

As we laid and slept, the river wept

For you, Zion

The stones cry out

Bells shake the sky

All creation groans

Shh

We took the twine we used to use

To tie up tight our tattered shoes

And twisted twigs, a crooked cross

A necklace for the deeply lost

You builder with the broken bricks

Mother to the baby chicks

You made this world to look so nice

I wonder what the next one's like?

Yellow spider, yellow leaf

Yellow spider, yellow leaf

Yellow spider, yellow leaf

Confirms my deepest held belief

Listen to it

Messes of men in farmer poverty

Not much for monks, but we pretend to be

Share a silent meal and a pot of chamomile

Gypsies like us should be stamped in solidarity

I held you in my fond but distant memory

While waiting for the Mother Hen to gather me

Who regretfully wrote

"You have a decent ear for notes

But you can't yet appreciate harmony"

O' porcupine low in the tree

Your eyes to mine

"You'd be well inclined not to mess with me"

At the garden's edge beneath a speechless sky

As his friends slept, Jesus wept

Is it any wonder why?

You wanna be set free?

You wanna set me free?

Well, that can only come from a union with the One who never dies

In my little world

In my sad little world

I patched a plaster wall in my little world

I was waiting, just dying

To take offence at something in my little world

In my sad little world

This is all there is in my little world

I never gathered figs from a thorny branch

I never picked a grapefruit off a bramble bush

Past five, almost forty-six years

I haven't once looked at them

With kindness in my eyes

Judas is a brother of mine

Oh, but sister, in our darkness a light shines

All I ever want to say for the rest of my life

Is that light is God, I've been mistaken about everything

That light is God