Wild Places Lyrics - Peter, Paul & Mary

Silence slips between us 

Solitude complete 

The stillness clear 

And close as heaven's door 

The earth beats out its rhythm 

In slow and perfect time 

Counterpoint and harmonies 

Life's melodies entwine 

And we fight the battle here 

Where there's time to fall in step 

The secrets are still known here 

But the secrets never kept 

Wild places, somewhere 

We can see the Father's hand 

Wild places, somewhere 

We can be alone with you 

We need a promised land 

Maybe we'll be wounded in the healing 

It's to be broken to be sure 

Can we embrace 

This strange awakening together? 

Is wisdom carved into creation? 

The old relationships defined 

As forbidding as her truth may be 

We'll learn her ways with time 

We'll learn to take it as it comes 

We can't change faster than we can 

Already we're a long way 

From the children we began 

Wild places, somewhere 

We can see the Father's hand 

Wild places, somewhere 

We can be alone with you 

We need a promised land 

Wood smoke rising 

Faces alive in the firelight 

Forsaking the road 

And making it home to be there tonight 

The young making good what they found 

In the wood, what they learned of a land 

Putting dreams back together 

Talking it through, reaching out for the hand 

There's a moment caught suspended 

Communion born between our eyes 

Our vision clears 

Its golden flight ascending 

And we have seen what we have come for 

And we will some day see again 

But we have climbed into the mountains 

So we must climb back down 'til then 

But we'll take it as it is crazy 

With love and disbelief 

And the magic of your morning 

The wilderness, the peace 

Wild places, somewhere 

We can the Father's hand 

Wild places, somewhere 

We can be alone with you 

We need a promised land 

We need a promised land