White Shadow

作词 : Matthew Field/Ross Dorkin/Robin Brink/Asanda Lusaseni Mvana

作曲 : Matthew Field/Ross Dorkin/Robin Brink/Asanda Lusaseni Mvana

I spend most of my time

Trying to work out

What I’m going to say

For example: today

I did not leave the house,

And I wrote to people

Far away,

Hours away

Don’t sail away

In your mind

Have you always been like this?

Conspiring with lightning

Don’t fade away

You’re on the brink of something great

I spend much of the night

Trying to take back

All the time that it took;

In a borrowed book

I write things in the margins

That you would understand

If you looked.

But why would you look?

I take the white shadow from you

I give you what I can give you

I curse the burden within you

But I can’t take it away

Broken glass in the river

Reflects a crumbling pillar

Break the branch that is withered

And carve it into something

Turn the wheel of tomorrow

As you lie dreaming in the grass

Decant all of your sorrow

Into a clearer glass

Endless soul

Unbending light

Already whole

Always right

Don’t sail away

In your mind

Have you always been like this?

Conspiring with lightning

Don’t fade away

You’re on the brink of something great

In Los Angeles

In the Pyrenées

In the Andes

And in the Himalayas

In the Cederberg

There’s a weaver bird

There ’s a pigeon on a building

In Johannesburg