Awaken To Dreams



driving down Orangeville Road
throught these hills of melting snow
the Lost River she's overflowed
and the fields flood soon

every farmer's said good-night
every farmwife has put out the light
everyfarmhouse is cool and white
in the light of the moon

moonlight is sunlight
daylight is starlight
one man's day is another's night
and nothing is as it seems

this old earth seems bound to turn
that old sun seems bound to burn
those old folks seem bound to learn
to awaken to their dreams

you and I have come so far
all we own is in this car
all I wish upon a star
is for a season of time

time to watch the springtime sprout
time to set the seedlings out
time to sing away your doubts
about these nickles and dimes

my time is your time
these times are our times
old songs and new rhymes
milk and honey on our lives

like the milk cow by the honey locust trees
like the milkweed growing up to her knees
on the milk route of the honeybees
working it back to the hives

I believe we'll find a welcome space
believe we'll build us another place
believe we'll beet a friendly face
before the season is done

somewhere down here in these hills
another on or two who will
want to sit and sing untill
the silent rising of the sun

sunrise is sundown
silence is a musical sound
standing still is turning around
floating on an empty stream

that new sun seems ever to burn
this new earth seems ever to turn
my new friends are we ever to learn
to awaken to our dreams