The Raven

Caroline Lavelle

Compositor: Caroline LaVelle / Jacob de Graaf

Here between us
Earth and heaven
There are gods here who rule the air
Wheeling lazy by the margins a breath is lifted
The birds are there
So the raven carries night across the day
Dusk to dusk
Light to light it casts a shadow
Across the brilliant sky tonight

That willow tree is me
It sways and it bends
And that raven that flew
Into its arms is you
And you my heart

Now the cold gleam of winter's night
Is captured by the sea
The path of silver leading full west
To where my love flies so far from me
Taken long from these arms of night
To live in daylight a world away
And the willow it sways in the west wind
That tells of ravens across the sea

That willow tree is me
It sways and it bends
And that raven that flew
Into its arms is you
And you, my heart