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Chris Whitley - Vertical Desert

I lean back on the sundial where angels fall

Too late to tell the time

In yours or mine now the lanscape gestures questions

How does your body climb the latitude beyond me

Weigh the evening's silence, science, secrets

The wreckage and the prize

Behind your eyes two could have tasted

Visions raised on vacancy and lies

And a vertical desert where you stand now

Where I will be measured until we finally field

The stations, nations, civilizations underground

'Cause now I know the lay of land

Living with the law could come apart

If I care enough, I will break your heart

And the weight of pleasure until where we stand aloft

And a vertical desert

I come back here sometimes

Angels fall, fireflies ascend out beyond the aching skyline

Reckless distances erupt in intoxication

Between the hard and soft of our evaporations

Where we stand aloft at the vertical desert

At the curved air of collapse and creation

The ballast of chaos and gravity's liberations

(Corrections always welcome)