Artist: The Innocence Mission Album: Befriended ----------------------------- Tomorrow On The Runway ---------------------- Old days, don't come to find me, the sun is just about to climb up over there. 'While my heart is sinking I do not want my voice to go out into the air'. Did you leave the darkness without me? You're always miles ahead. And you're standing in tomorrow on the runway. Oh be the music in my head, the air around my bed, oh be my rest. Replace the small disgraces of the times and places that I never really left. Did you leave the darkness without me? You're always miles ahead. And you're standing in tomorrow on the runway. Oh I want to fly, fly forward into the light, be alive, to come alive, on the leaf-bright Friday drive, sudden horses at the red light, turn around, see clearer ways to go now. When Mac Was Swimming --------------------- When Mac was swimming I was running late, walking around New Orleans looking for a birthday cake. It was a great surprise to him so many people came. Nobody knows, darling. Nobody knows how they are loved. Don't worry, my darling, the sun's coming up. Let's get up early now, dive clear into the day. Let's get out of the car with open arms, not wait to be embraced. The flowers that grew, the things that happened since the day you came. Nobody knows, darling.Nobody knows how they are loved. Don't worry, my darling, the sun's coming up. I Never Knew You From The Sun (for Mary McCullough) ----------------------------- What a time it was. I was befriended and was a friend for the longest while. You were here, and I never knew you from the sun. Snow is on the ground but this is not my landscape now, where I find myself without you. Oh I never knew you from the sun. Oh I had a friend. I had a friend I loved. Now I walk for miles into dark forests of piano songs. I'm lost. Deep into my sleeves, deep in my sleeves, pockets down where I always reach, you are there. Oh I never knew you from the sun, never, never knew you from the sun. Beautiful Change ---------------- Oh I'm going to find some peace of mind. At any time I could change, any day, a beautiful change. Some low sinking clouds become reindeer while I'm standing here at the door, looking for a beautiful change. The snow is here. The light is bright. Flower forth, and soon, branch of Easter. I want to be here when he needs me, he will see a beautiful change. Oh and he wades into the yard. Nothing has been what I'd guessed so far. Unforeseen, this most sweet, beautiful change. Martha Avenue Love Song ----------------------- Walking through the world, walking under trees. Many things that only you and only I have seen. When you say Oh look and see, then there is the sky, five o'clock in winter when the pink and green arrive. Now we're blown around. And I can't let you down, my sun and my sweetest sound. Oh you are my friend, oh you are my friend. One For Sorrow, Two For Joy --------------------------- Today is a winter Sunday. We wear our heavy coats. The soul of my brother is pure, though he doesn't think so. Oh one for sorrow, Oh one for sorrow, two for joy. We walk the whole two miles to Holly. I want to hold his hand but I don't. The thoughts of my brother, Where and when they fly I don't know. What is coming down from the north road, what is coming up from the ground? Though we don't know much at all, stand ever firmly, love. No Storms Come (lyrics adapted from the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem "Heaven-Haven [A nun takes the veil]") ---------------------------------------------- Sweep Down Early ---------------- Sweep down early, Tomorrow, come. Ring out. Tell me you have arrived. I will kiss all the faces of my beloved ones. I will meet the morning. Sweep down early, my friend. And we will go somewhere now. And it feels like we can go in the morning. When the morning comes. Flower forth, all you branches of Easter. Why won't the spring come? Sweep down early, Tomorrow, come. Tell me that I can just start over again. Sweep down early, my friend. Walking Around -------------- Rain happens into my room at night, when there is so much time to miss you. Beautiful changes I've seen sometimes, the clouds changing into reindeer and flying to places clear of sorrow. Walking around. You know I've had enough of this trouble following me high and low. Now it can go. Some boy I knew said, Hang on, stay gold, before he left here for England. Beautiful changes I feel sometimes, in the middle of the late morning dishes when You say I might do anything at all. Walking around. You know I've had enough of this trouble following me high and low. Now it can go. Look For Me As You Go By ------------------------ Hang my head low, so low. Don't see me only as I am but see me how I long to be. Shining like a flowering tree under a gray Pennsylvania sky. Look for me as you go by. Hang my head low, so low. Every burden shall be lifted. Every stone upon your back slide into the sea. It's me for you and you for me.