The Forest Awakes Lyrics - Love This Giant - David Byrne & St. Vincent

The forest awakes 

A desert at dawn 

A mountain at night 

And the river 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 

We're marching along 

The street where you live 

I'm calling your name 

The song is a gift 

The song is 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 

A heart is a simple equation 

With beautiful words and with beautiful people 

A song is 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 can not escape 

Underneath the weeping willow 

I can see your face 

Free-form climbing all over me 

Creatures grey an small 

Doctors pulling them out of you 

Hideous, virtuous, both of us 

Calm in my kitchen 

When it rains outside 

Sweet inspiration 

Sneaks up from behind 

The forest is true 

I know for a fact 

That the bigger the front 

Then the bigger the back 

My heart beating still 

Through the perilous night 

The bombs burst in air 

But 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