Drunkard's Harmony

raised by wolves beneath the sputnik sky
your best friends were birds and bees
missing child of a missing child
then one day you found the key

took a first drink full of wind and stars
next one led you to the shore
there you stood with your empty glass
and all you wanted was some more

there were sweet summer nights strollin' the diamonds
out to the trestle the first frost of fall
roamin' the fields with your fast companions
and all you could hear was their call the harmony
broken harmony pure drunkard's harmony

Laughter shining from your eyes
stranger voices harmonize
free from death unbound by time
stay and the spirits will sing in harmony
drunkard's harmony

learned a trick to stop the spinnin'
when you couldn't slake your thirst
kept heading west but you never arrived
somehow your shadow got there first

now the clock stops it's 3 am forever
under the bridge where the winter turns Spring
safe in the cradle loved and protected
hearin' the voice of the King in harmony
broken harmony pure drunkard's harmony

smash the gifts your servants bear
hear this broken midnight prayer
not height nor depth nor dark despair
can hide from the love that He brings
the harmony drunkard's harmony


© 1997 Peter Case BUG Music (BMI)

©2000 Vanguard Records