Streamer On a Kite

[Verse]Listen to the sound of the swallow’s lost song

Harnessing the wind and saddling the unridden sun

The liver red fire at the heel of the sky

The beetle-black wing of the swallow telling you you can fly

Listen to the way that the longest branch groans

Dripping worried sap, and drying as the worried wind blows

All at once moves and all at once breathes

You and I bend as limber as two saplings

And I’ve had it in mind to tell you

I’ve seen you in the sky

You’re a streamer on a kite

You’re the streamer on a kite

Yeah I’ve had it in mind to tell you

I’ve seen you in the sky

You’re the streamer on a kite

You’re the streamer on a kite

You’re the wayward streamer

On a long-strung diamond of a kite

Listen how like flies are the endless black wheels

The galactic harvest hoard of the fecund silicone fields

The old dry well, now safe under stone

The trembling earth, the pumps of our hearts till we’re gone

And I’ve had it in mind to tell you

I’ve seen you in the sky

You’re the streamer on a kite

You’re the streamer on a kite

Yeah I’ve had it in mind to tell you

I’ve seen you in the sky

You’re the streamer on a kite

You’re the streamer on a kite

You’re the wayward streamer

On a long-strung diamond of a kite

You’re the streamer on a kite

You’re the streamer on a kite

You’re the streamer on a kite

You’re the streamer on a kite

You’re the wayward streamer

On a long-strung diamond of a kite