Pram Lyrics

Across the Meridian

Thistledown

Tiny hand
Little hand
Barest brush of thistledown

Tiny hand
Barest brush of thistledown
Little hand
Fingernails of needle ice

Electra

Painted bird, my tin tack metal friend
Let me step into the sky
Where all that's solid from the ground
melts away

You thought only men and birds could fly
I've left this leaden earth

You thought only men and birds could fly
I've left this leaden earth

I shan't return

Shadow in Twilight

You tell a good story, wrote me in
Turned the page and I let myself in
In a fiction, we are written
Often in anger

I sailed your seas, guided by stars
Not to know where the true paths lie
All your lonely constellations
Adrift in your skies

Where the moon kisses the water
The waves lap the shore
A shadow in twilight has lived there too long
All your lonely conversations
Often in anger

Mayfly

Look, the light has come
The river's warm
Touch the breeze
It's time to stir
And we'll climb together
Before we plunge from the sky
Reach up to sunlight
Taste the clear air rising

Up in the heaven of our small world
Limbs outstretched, out bellies empty
And we'll climb together
Before we plunge from the sky
And when it's over
We'll lie broken as the world rushes in

But first we'll fly
Beyond stopping
Falling like sycamore

Where the Sea Stops Moving

We journeyed here by rope and sail and starlight
Set a course for where the sea stops moving

Wound up the gramophone player
Sun and ice burned as we danced

At midnight we fashioned a building
A house of wood to set off from

You left as the ice closed in

You smoked the last tobacco
Alone in the cave that you made