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The Forest Awakes

David Byrne

Lyrics
The forest awakes, a desert at dawn

A mountain at night and the rhythm moves on

The people awake, they're marching along

The streets are alive with a terrible song

Forwards and backwards in every direction
The abs' perpetual motion

The shifting of light on the banks of the river
I'm free, but I'm keeping my clothes on

I'm marching along the street where you live
I'm calling your name, the song is a gift

The song is a road, a road is a face

A face is a time and a time is a place

A place of relief and a time of confusion
The heart is a simple equation

With beautiful words and with beautiful people
The song is a face, is a mountain

A fruit that falls before it's grown
I heard a sound and a bird has flown

It breaks to pieces above the forest
A million particles born today

Out beyond the blue horizon
Air cannot escape
Underneath the weeping willow
I can see your face

Free-form, climbing all over me
Creatures great and small

Doctors pulling them out of you
Hideous, virtuous, both of us
Come in my kitchen when it rains outside
Sweet inspiration sneaks up from behind

Forest is true, I know for a fact
The bigger the front then the bigger the back

My heart beating still through the perilous night

The bombs burst in air, my hair is alright

The shifting of light on the trees and the houses
I drown in an ocean of perfume
The strangeness of words
How the meaning keeps changing
But somehow the beauty will find you