Bright Lanterns

Bright Lanterns - The Tallest Man On Earth

We have clear blue waking skies and the morning after

And memories of gold on the run flying around

Was there a drunken cloud over someone just empty

A vision of a mountain you said so where did it go

It was light and I held it like a child to be saved

From the fires and from the falling down satellites

But still wondering

"Damn you always treat me like a stranger mountain

Though you've seen the shadow 'tween the city and what is mine

And fallen kids all rising mad among their lost believers

Suddenly darker in their eyes and their broken smiles

It's only what these kids will haul around "

Well there's a lot of selling land for hungry feet of answers

And medicine for balance and things like seeing your ghosts

So thank God we're bright said the lantern's brother

Cause I don't know a thing about boats or the land I see

It was day and I stood there once again climbing equipped

When I knew you were the one throwing dying stars on our gathering

But he said

"Damn you always treat me like a mountain stranger

Though I have never seen your shadows or fading lights

I'm just a rock that you'll be picking up through all your ages

Always believing there's a canyon for every blind

It's only what these kids will haul around "