The Tide Falls Away Lyrics - Promised Land - Dar Williams

I walked a spiraling village one night 

Drawn by the word of a bell or a light 

Out on the flats saw it rose to a spire 

It all becomes clear as the tide falls away 

Parent and child and an ocean between 

One is not heard and the other not seen 

Too many bottles but each had a message inside 

It all becomes clear as the tide falls away 

It all becomes clear as the tide falls away 

Lucky we are when the starts leave us singing 

A hymn or a dirge when the surge of the ocean 

Is gone, is gone 

And the old woman just stares at her hands 

So many heroes have crumbled to sand 

All those cathedrals were merely by men 

It all becomes clear as the tide falls away 

It all becomes clear as the tide falls away 

All falls away