Time Is a River

Time Is a River

Words and music by Sequoia Fahey

W/Tom Waits-ish feel (In the feel similar to “Broken Bicycles”)

 

(verse)

Green is the color of

Moss covered stones

On a dry creek bed

Time is a river

Deep as it flows

Green is the color of

Time Itself

 

(verse)

Red is the color

Deep as it flows

Of blood in the veins

Life is a river

Even if it slows

Red is the color of

Time itself

 

(chorus)

All lines intersect in
The prism of time.

All lines intersect in
The prism of time.

 

(verse)

Blue is the color of

A moment at dawn

Of endless horizons

Layers or time

Going on on and on

Endless horizons of

Time itself

 

(verse)

Yellow is the color

Like the eye of a cat

Soft like the moon

Prowling at night

On a dry creek flat

Yellow is the color of

Flowering Time

 

(Chorus)

All lines intersect in
The prism of time.

All lines intersect in
The prism of time.

 

(Interlude: spoken)

Before I was born

I came from that green griver

I come from the origin of that great river

I felt pure joy

As I was created

For the first time

Pure joy

As I was created

For the first time

I was there at the beginning

And I still here now

Ready

The earth hangs in balance

Upon the doorway of time Itself

 

(chorus)

All lines intersect in
The prism of time.

All lines intersect in
The prism of time.

 

(Final verse)

Time is a rainbow

Both ends lead to home

Time is eternal

The blood in my veins

And marrow in my bones

Time is a moment

Of color