Crystal Creek Lyrics - In The Time Of Gods - Dar Williams

You so fleet and youthful 

Mustve split a thousand apples 

Oh I watched you as you steadied first your heart and then your breath 

Venturing out scanned a thousand blades of grass 

And when you drew your bow string 

It was a swift and cordial death. 

As you stood in the wilderness 

Did you feel the silence in the stillness? 

And was me with you in the forest 

For you knew the balance the balances before us 

I was guarding crystal creek. 

Our tree its a record; a home of memories 

And every bird springs from an old masters canvas full and flight 

And the pond I go to sparkles in a vast estuary 

And those men saw nothing 

Staring drunken through their sights 

The one who spied me out as God still plunder 

Had to show the world that he was not a true hunter 

And it was me when he saw me naked 

He was interrupting something sacred 

I was guarding Crystal Creek. 

And the newsmen circled 

Leaving trails of cigarette butts 

Machine like, up the hill to crystal creek 

Jane, she said who would do this thing 

Ive seen today? I cannot hold my mic 

My hands are shaking; knees are weak 

Found a man and he was wrapped in a deerskin 

Riddled through with boxes of his friends ammunition 

Turn the camera off, she said. 

And that was me 

All my noble animals 

You must act with reverence not like cannibals 

I was guarding crystal creek