Long Now Songtext
von Just a Tourist

Daytime.
My hair drips sweat.
Your pearl teeth,
In the oyster of your mouth,
Gleam with smiling.
My skin knows touch and warmth.
Your hand knows strength of purpose ...
In this Long Now
Between emerging and dissolving...

Water rises as wave.
Falls. Rises. Again.
Same water, same tidal motion, same ocean.
Same wave?


Evening.
Dim starlight emerges,
Come morning it resolves again
Into bright.
A western star
In twilight′s land of meeting and parting ...
Hands rough with earth,
Scars of honest work,
Lines etched on the face by love
-Some from pleasure, some from pain.
These are the retirement plan of happiness.

Water rises as wave.
Falls. Rises. Again.
Same water, same tidal motion, same ocean.
Same wave?

Nightime.
I lay down my head,
Feet, hands, shoulders, the small cares, plans,
Sad turns, sweet moments
That mark the contours of Love's body.
I lay down the slow pulse of marrow
And the rhythm of blood,
I lay down mind in the bed of ease.
I lay down tomorrow and
Wake up in tomorrow


Dawn.
First emanation, deep
A bright arises, emerges,
Resolves again in sleep,
Emerges once more ...
Entire likeness of bird song,
The smell of grass,
Eyes open and
"Sight" becomes appearance

... and I will love
You again, like
Yesterday again, like
Tomorrow again, in this
Long Now again,
This emerging
Again, and resolving again

Water rises as wave.
Falls. Rises. Again.
Same water, same tidal motion, same ocean.
Same wave?

... and I will love
You again, like
Yesterday again, like
Tomorrow again, in this
Long Now again,
This emerging
Again, and resolving again

Water rises as wave.
Falls. Rises. Again.
Same water, same tidal motion, same ocean.
Same wave?

... and I will love
You again, like
Yesterday again, like
Tomorrow again, in this
Long Now again,
This emerging
Again, and resolving again