Bird in the Nighttime - Nightjars

There’s a mule deer at the edge of my property

Sniffing out the stars from where they hide in the stream

While you are away, I can feel your love passing over me

Like a bird in the night on its way to sleep

There’s a time we’re glad to be alive

And I don’t know when it’s coming again

Rising tides and the mythical wives

And the bars on the doors of the warrens

Men stand with guns at the edge

Of a lonely and terribl fence

And evry morning on the bus I watch the mountains rise

Brown eye of my joy and a bird in the nighttime

But I don’t own the river or the deer

I swallow lumps of long-gone years

Lay my head on a shoulder that shrugged me off

And I knew I was in the wrong

You don’t have to tell me twice, say the word, I’ll be gone

I said, I don’t want to ruin the night for you

You said, I don’t want to be there without you

He played finish line and you handed me a ribbon of the moon

Oh, I’ll live long, but never long enough to love you like I want to

There’s a time right before my very eyes

That we’ll spend our whole lives living

In their eyes, I’m a mythical wife

And in mine, I’m a beast of a burden

You crash through every fence

And you know the boy I am

And every morning on the bus I watch the mountains rise

New moon, closed wound, slow burn in the nighttime

The mountains all alight

A fire lowlands away, my dear

And an old friend was not is a friend anew

He once said, it is all around

You don’t have to chase it down, say the word, cuz we do

There’s a time and a place intertwined

I could spend my whole life chasing

But I’m alive, I am real and surprised

As a yolk in a broken casing

When I can’t see you, we imagine warmer times

Some morning on the bus we’ll hold each other tight

You’re the moon of my life, dear bird in the nighttime