Ceremony

Ceremony

Shannon McNally/ Shancie Songs/ASCAP

Rollin a long way from the sea

The sky is the color of grenadine

The horizon cools the nerves like codeine

There’s nothing saying you can trust a heart

It’s a patchwork that’s been ripped and sewn

Memories are just thoughts walking in their sleep

Keep holding on holding out

Things that are left for all of time

High lean country and old story lines

They sit dark against the glow of stars

Like some ancient language

Down on the rez

Remembered by the old

Imagined by the rest

Ceremony returns you to your blood’s country

Keep Holding on holding out

Somewhere there’s a lonely mission

Waiting on your entrance

Somewhere there’s a desperate vision

Holding on the dream of you

Dream of you, dream of you

Thoughts are like rivers

They flow down stream

Words are like currents

They move in between

Songs have a power when they are true and lean

May the great wide open take you into it’s arms

Swaddle and hold you and keep you from harm

The best bits are missing but they will be known

So keep holding on, holding out because it’s a lonely

Mission