Comes the dawning light
Don't it seem strange
Nothing ever runs on time
We need a change
Now I go by
Now I'm heard to say
When times are hard
Don't find yourself too far away.
A fact about trains
Heading down railroad tracks
No matter the head of steam
It's not true they don't come back.
Now I go by
Now I'm heard to say
When times are hard
Don't find yourself too far away.
There's a story about a King Knüt
How all the gladhanders he rebuked.
Down to the sea we must go says he
There to see if the waves will know.
The clouds are mighty and the sea is firm
He makes a stand on the shingled berm
Turn away! Turn away! Turn away he cries
Tell me says he How the tide replies.
Say what you will and do as you must
Deeds are alive when the man turns to dust.
Cross the blue-darkened ice
Lightning and sunsets abound
Faces aglow
That's how we welcome winter home
Winter Comes Home
That's how we welcome it home.
Love those friends made of stone
Braving the Big Blue alone alone
Windows on fire
That's how it happens to be
Happens To Me
That's how it happened to me.
Songs we sing of long nights
Wait till the strangers go home
Whistling the tunes of their own
Leave us to learn the songs that call
Cry From The Heart
That call from the heart of the wind.
(The Wooden Birds laugh at the Theory of Uniformitarianism)
Fish leap out of the fossil record
Fully formed and happy to be here
Birds fly out of the binding rocks
Fully formed and happy to be here.
Here come the dinosaurs
Homes all around the world
We like it here
We got stuff to eat and room with a view
We got a reason to be and plenty to do
Tell me what more's a fellow need
Than somewhere to go and somewhere to be?
Yeah we like it here.
Call it out for all it's worth
Nothing changes on this earth
All the years all things remain the same
The way it is it was and will remain.
Here come the dinosaurs.
Take a flesh from off of the bone
Chuck a word about willy-nilly
Make your mind up here and now
Shoulda coulda so it had to be.
Bones all around the world
Gathered up and put in halls
Daylight crawls up and down the walls
Strangers fixed in a strange land
Debris found on a foreign sand
The evidence is there to see
The old world simply ceased to be.
Here come the dinosaurs
Here come the...
Whoops!
They're gone.
Think about the thing revealed
Suddenly what a change can come
Say about how I feel
Oh oh so strange.