You've come down a long and hard road
Given so willingly
Now you're lost in a world of trouble
Reach out your hand to me

Let me carry you like the river
Surround you like the sea
Lay you down in a field of clover
Hold you 'neath the tall pine trees

We all have our dreams to follow
The ones we strive to be
Like the ocean we move together
Unaware of our majesty

When you're tired, when you're lonely
Love's a fading memory

Let me carry you like the river
Surround you like the sea
Lay you down in a field of clover
Hold you 'neath the tall pine trees

Lady, I don't know what to say
I've wanted so long to talk with you this way
When your man came to me I didn't know he would stay
We both know so well his loving way

And I'm sorry you're feeling so much pain
But it's true, nothing stays the same
I've had my sorrows, too
There's no one to blame
For mistakes we made in love's name

He was running, longing to be free
When he stopped, tried to find himself in me
Soon our loving grew like rivers in the rain
'Til finally I believed that he would stay

On the road I met a lady who shared herself with me
She was open, she was loving
She was learning to be free
She made me ask some questions that cut me to the bone
Why do I feel I have to learn to live my life alone?

Ophelia, you touched me in my dream
Waking I still hear your melody
Ophelia, I loved myself with you
You're with me now and more than memories

And who's to say it's better to leave someone you love
To be the first to pack your bags when things are getting rough
And now why do I feel so wrong to love someone who's gone
Who's to say if loving still is weak or if it's strong?

Now the circle of my life is sometimes open, sometimes closed
Flowers that bloomed yesterday, they withered or they froze
And sometimes I'm so scared to be the one I long to be
But the strength will come from somewhere else or deep inside of me

I left my longtime home in Colorado
Thinking it would be a downhill ride
With a carrot made of dreams to lead me onward
And everything I owned packed in behind

A hundred miles down the road I started shaking
There were still a thousand more to go
Was it me or my old truck that was breaking
Both of us were carrying a load

'Til I broke down and stalled in Grand Junction
Locked in four walls in a Holiday Inn
Well, my truck is willing but my heart has come undone

A tug of war was going on inside me
A thousand voices calling me back home
While the sirens of the sun and fame and fortune
Were urging me to drive on to the great unknown

I can't go back, right now I can't go on
Maybe I'll get moving when I see tomorrow dawn

In my holiday room with flowered curtains
Vibrabed and cable TV
No surprises but that face in the mirror
Can't have anything to do with me

I think she's broke down and stalled in Grand Junction….

I'd like to keep on moving
Cross Utah and Nevada to the California sun
Well, my truck is willing but my heart has come undone

In the comfort of my easy chair, thumbing through a magazine
My eye was caught by a photograph I'd glanced at but never seen
A young child staring at me, no more than skin and bones
Too hungry to cry, too weak to care
I felt like he was my own

Hold on, little one, though there's not much to hold on to
Hold on, little one, what in the world can I do?
Hold on, little one, hold on to someone who cares
I want to do more than cry for you
Want to send you more than my prayers

Though I might be half the world from you, I still can hear you cry
In the silence of your starving camp, someone's singing a lullaby
Your mother holds you in her arms, there's not much else to give
No milk to drink, no food to eat
But a will for you to live

We've been caught in a wind of hopelessness
Caught in a wind of despair
But I can feel a shift in the wind
We will find a way
We'll find a way to share

I awoke from a dream, I was sent to Northern Ireland
To try and stop the killing there, to bring peace
I said, "You ask too much, you who send me to this land
There's no magic in these hands to make the hatred cease"
Then a thousand voices echoed
And they did not fade away
Saying

If not you, if not me, who will it be
If not you, if not me, who will it be
Can you stand by and do nothing 'cause you cannot do it all
If not you, if not me, who will it be?

And was it only a dream or was it here in my own city
That hundreds huddled homeless by the buildings to keep warm
And their hands reached out and I knew I had to fill them
But lord, there are so many and I only have two arms
Then a thousand voices echoed
And they did not fade away, saying…

Now these dreams and others like them, they're with me every day
They're here in every movement, in every word we say
And a thousand voices echo
And they do not fade away, saying…

Was it only a dream or was I in so many places
Countless huddled homeless with their children, fleeing harm
And their hands reached out and I knew I had to fill them
But, lord, there are so many and I only have two arms
Then a thousand voices echoed..

So come to me now, let me hold you
Come to me now, we can stay
'Til our winds blow another way

Katie told me that life is too short
To pass any chances to love
Roll like the river and go with the wind
Move like the clouds up above
Katie told me that cursing a lover
For changing and going away
Does as much good as cursing the wind
For blowing the wrong way

Katie told me that love would be here
If only I'd open my eyes
She said don't be blinded by those who have hurt you
Don't hold on to those who tell lies
Katie told me the walls 'round my heart
Would crumble and fall when I see
That I can be here and give you my love
But you cannot steal it from me

Katie told me that love would surround us
If only we'd trust what we knew
She told me her secrets then went on her way
And left me to tell them to you

Smell of morning coffee drifting up the stair
I got in late last night and you're trying not to wake me
So many little things show me you care
Though we don't speak of it
It feels like love to me

Over and over you're showing me magic
Magic that live in the world
Over and over you give it away
And it comes back even stronger

I'll meet you in a glance that says a thousand words
With you to come home to taking chances is easy
So many little things unsaid not unheard
Though we don't speak of it
It feels like love to me

Just two kids with all the time they would ever need to be sure
You became the first "I love you" I ever knew, I ever heard
Then the road took you away
And just why you couldn't say
For so long I looked for you every day

Summer rain upon the hillside has washed away some of the past
Rocking chair is waiting for you patiently…memories last
Looking back, I held my own
Through the days I spent alone
Looking back, I see you coming home

Hold me close and tell me how the years flew by
Hold me closer, make this one night stay
For a lifetime…or until we say goodbye
Hold me close until you go away

Looking back, you'd always known
That your heart was not alone
Looking back, I see you coming home

Dinosaur once ruled the earth
But he could not make the change
Could not take the essential step
When things were getting strange
Dinosaur was big and strong
But was not very smart
By doing things he'd always done
The species soon depart

Dinosaur speak across the ages
Telling us we'd better learn
Dinosaur in his final stages
Saying it might be our turn

We've adapted many times
In this play called humanity
Now we've set the stage with power and might
We're writing out Act Three
Will we be like the dinosaur
And make ourselves extinct?
The nuclear age has changed everything
But the way we think

So set in my ways that I didn't see
You were drifting away, away from me
Now that you're gone don't know what I'll do
You were the only one that I told my troubles to

You walked out my door and shattered my dreams
Now I'm so alone, sometimes it seems
If you had died you couldn't be farther away
And at least I'd know there was nothing more to say

You filled my days
Shared my dreams
Sometimes it seemed that you were one with me
Home to me

Wait for the day, it hasn't come yet
When I let you go and have no regrets
For I love you well and I love you strong
But if you need to fly I could never hold you long

There's no home in this world anymore for a gentleman
An inmate in a tuxedo
Strolling with indifferent partners beneath the chandeliers
Looking for someone to bleed to
But I would be your gentle one
If you would only let this ragged heart please you
There will be laughter, there will be shame
There will be laughter in this gentle heart again

Come riding, riding, riding
Come running for your life
Come take this song of my brothers
Come take this healing knife

There's no home in this world anymore for a saint
With a salesman to franchise his sandals
To heal the faithful and hear all of their complaints
In the theaters of Los Angeles
To stand in the garden and ask for nothing
There is nothing they'd ever call more dangerous
There will be robes and gowns, there will be saints
There will be magic clowns dressed for the masquerade

My brothers are the shattered bones of volcanoes
Piled as the walls of loneliness
My brothers are scattered chunks of tombstones
Like weeds on abandoned mountains
My brothers are the windows of the hurricanes that open on everyday heroes
There will be brutal times, there will be grace
There will be diamond eyes, lights of an eloquent face

But there's no home in this world anymore for a wanderer
A waistcoat, a bow and arrow
A pioneer blazing a trail in the hills of Cumberland
Riding logs down the river Ohio
But I seek another highway
Where they learn to heal the wings of a wounded sparrow
Come stand before this fire glowing on your skin
Come take these searching eyes someplace that they'd never been

When I came to you I didn't sing
I told you I'd forgotten all the words
Then you led me in a song we wrote together
More beautiful than anything I'd heard

When I came to you I didn't dance
Though I stood by the door and hoped you'd ask me
When you took me in your arms and turned the world around
I knew that a dancer I would be

You and I are the music
You and I are the dance
Changing colors, changing partners
Touching hearts and touching hands
As we twirl all the world comes alive in our sight
And in the end there is only the dance

When I came to you I didn't laugh
I saw too many things I thought were wrong
Then you touched me with your love and my life was lighter
I knew I was laughing all along

You and I are the music
We are part of the dance
Changing colors, changing partners
Touching hearts and touching hands
As we twirl all the world comes alive in our sight
And in the end there is only the dance