Hymns From Nineveh

The green grass withers, Cities perish, a summernight ends. A brief glimpse of smoke – a sigh – An unsolved riddle told: With the same two hands I buried my father, I carry my son. Signs of rust in my treasure, Signs of dark matter in my veins, The beaming si...

I close my eyes and i float upstream And receive a hazy vision of all things: I see new york from the wings of an eagle I see all the eels in the nile I see all the people flow through the streets Like tumbleweed I see a man leaving and leaving I see the name...

I’m like a kid on the beach When you hurl a new sun over me! Your love is an entheogen I can run wild in… A yellow iris rises in the horizon… I see all colors revive as in the hands of an artisan, Who’s lifting me out of the black And into the blue. I’m like...

Lately i’ve seen your songs stand still on your tongue. Lately i have seen you walk about in the streets like a dog. You look like an angel You look like an angel F A L L I N G Lately i’ve seen how your eyes swirl, Searching for rooms with exit signs in you...

I spent the night in the forest you were shining when I cried when I cried: "Oh where is the light?" I spent all my days in my mindscape you were with me when I weapt when I weapt you watched me when I slept Skies have grown darker but stars have g...

Come all ye who are heavy burdened Come all ye who are in pain Come all ye who are heavy burdened Come all ye who are in pain - and you may sleep in my gardens you may stay in my house even forever and forever and on and on! So come all ye who say "w...

So says the daughter of Zion the longing, the wounded, the tired so says the daughter of Zion the sighing, the seeing, the shy: "One is in labour another woman's womb is closed One is cured and one dies before growing old Oh! Come down while I sleep!...

Have we lost our words for this feeling? Have we lost our wings while flying? Did we see the days fade away like rain? Did we see the sun let down everyone? Lover! Come here! Let me whisper a secret in your ear: Oh! We could start here: Drink de...

Behold!
 i saw these things happening: I saw ashes where you once lay, I saw the holy dove move. Far away from eden, I saw these things happening. I saw the holy dove move Far away from eden. Can you tell me what they mean, All these things that I have seen?...

When I am weary then I try to think of the words that you told me When I said I was a boy on a lonely dark fare in the middle of nowhere nowhere to turn to and nowhere to hide when I have nowhere hide then I think of the words you that told me when...

Good morning, sleeping darling! The sun is awake! Everything begins again! Dew, do you knowjust how wonderful you are? You make the world feel new again! Soon enough Everything we see will turn to dust, My dear, i see these things simultaneously! Help me to s...

Far away from eden And a long way from home It looks like everything’s changing Anything burns Far away from eden And a long way from home It feels like everything changes Nothing is as it was Far away from eden And a long way from home It looks like everyth...

I remember when you said you were full of sparks in your head Your words were fireworks in me I saw my firework in you I thought your skin was like a veil Concealing hope and fairytales and your hands were like a map from where many'll find their way b...

You said: ”lover,take me over there By the window, Where a goldfinch sings In the vine, that gave us shade on summer days And wine to drink when winter came. Lo! It sings!” Stop the clocks! No time is needed now. Let the bells call for my love. Stop the sun!...

I wrote to you if we could meet In the park by the sycamore tree (where we carved a heart of will, Where we saw time stand still. Where i saw the holy dove
 move in both me and you): “if i give in to my sorrow here Will you be there to dry my tears? If i come...

I saw you disappear in a sea of flames I saw your silhouette dancing against a blood dripping moon I saw your face altering in a million ways I saw myself vanishing out of your range I saw these things happening as the seer said I saw the sky flourishing with...

I see children playing at the cave of the bear. And of the lion the lamb has no fear. I see the blind regain sight By spit and dirt in their eyes. The riddleless time has begun! The riddleless time has begun! I see a secret revealed in every mind. I see ever...

The rage burned like a fire in Achilles and when it burns in me I beg you please don't be afraid of my rage my love The silence muted Abraham, the true and when it mutes me too I beg, I beg you don't be confused by my silence my love Darkblue ski...

I see it from the pinnacle Of the temple: Sapphire skies, Rivers of rubies, Meadows of gold, Ivory towers, Milk and honey …could i give in to all this? I see it from the pinnacle Of the temple: Glorious bodies, An infinite soul, Sorcery powers, Mind control...

When Selma, the blind and the bold Told the tale of the untold We could grow old And as she gets strangled you're holding my hand In prayer that we'll never end Oh no we'll never end As a snowflake endures on my tongue In seconds before it's gone We'...

Oh dear, I hear Your hope is gone Oh dear, I hear Your sorrowsong Oh dear, I hear You faith is lost Oh dear, I hear You feel like a ghost Sister Sorrowsong Sister Sorrowsong Oh dear, I hear The sound of your heart like a leaf on a tree In the ey...

An old man said "Live one day at a time Who can add a day to his life by worrying?" Though we're young We've seen what worry can do So embrace the worried songs we sing to you So mournful the elegy And so comforting the hymn So mournful the elegy An...

Oh, my soul, can you name them, The colors of the sea? I stand before a starlit ocean. It overpowers me That no answers are Found in the streams of the stars! Not a single sign in the sky Is found. Oh, my love, can you see them, The colors of the sea? If you...