How can I know
What is it you're thinking
If you won't tell me yourself?
I try to read signs
You leave with your fingers
Still the dust collects upon my shelf

The car backfired and sounded like a whole parade of gunshots
Your speckled dog was cowering, and the butterflies flew off
And I had no more hurry, I just gave my breath to chance then
Left a dusty city phantom for a green I had supposed

Out on the road
Past all the truckstops
I couldn't drive anymore
You said there's a sound
something strange in the engine
We stopped for you to try to find a cure

I took your dog and ran
Out towards the mountains
We found a sandy place there
Where a bluebird had flown past
And when I came on back
You'd got the engine running
You took that tattered feather
And laid it on the dash

Chorus:
Fractured words and scattered moments
We felt each other move at night
You touched my hair just like a comet
Sparkling shivers of your light

Tousle-haired child
From over the mountains
From a planet far, far away
Stay with me long
I believe in the silence
You will find a way to say,

"I love you like a night
Sky that comes a-searching
Over hills and canyons
For a poet to inspire
And through the dark green night
I'll find the place that's hurting
And with the sand inside me
To heal it I will try"