O, Porcupine Lyrics - Me Without You

Without a queen the locust swarm 

Turned the ground to black 

Descending like a shadowy tower 

On a fish's back 

And scattered the sticks 

Who crawled like snakes in the sand 

As the red clay took the form of a lizard 

Who rushed like a moth 

To the flame of my open hand 

My little world, my sad little world 

A speckled bird humbly inspired 

Ran across the road when it could have flown 

And it made me smile at the water's edge, Babylon 

As we laid and slept, the river wept for you, O' Zion! 

The stones cry out, bells shake the sky 

All creation groans, "Shh!" 

Listen to it! 

Messes of men in farmer poverty 

Not much for monks but we pretend to be 

Share a silent meal and a pot of chamomile 

Gypsies like us should be stamped in solidarity 

And I held you in my fond but distant memory 

While awaken with the Mother Hen to gather me 

Who regretfully wrote, 'You have a decent ear for notes 

But you can't yet appreciate harmony' 

Oh, porcupine low in the tree, your eyes to mine 

You'd be well inclined, not to mess with me 

At the garden's edge beneath a speechless sky 

As His friends slept, Jesus wept and now wonder 

And now you say you wanna be set free? 

And wanna set me free? 

Well, I'm told that can only come from 

A union with the One who never dies 

In my little world, in my sad little world 

I patched a plaster wall, my little world 

In my little world, I was waiting, just dying 

To take offense at something, in my little world 

In my little world, in my sad little world 

That's all there is in my little world 

In darkness a light shines on me 

In darkness a light shines on you 

I never gathered figs from a thorny branch 

I never picked a grapefruit off a bramble bush 

And for the past five almost six years now! 

You know you haven't once looked at me 

With kindness in your eyes 

You say, 'Judas is a brother of mine?' 

But sister in our darkness a light shines 

And all I ever want to say for the rest of my life 

Is how that light is God 

And though I've been mistaken on this or that point 

That light is nevertheless God