You As You Were

When you fall at the rocks At the bend at the river With the blood from your nose Running hard on your fingers And through the rest of your life The electric charge Of a change in the weather You were touching my arm You were holding a feather And then I opened my eyes As the World goes racing, suddenly changed As the shock of the axe, it leaves you trembling Like a busting shell in the small of your back Or a job that's hard on the cast of your little lie And an animal life was surging away And you were back on the road Through the worst of the Winter Through the Valley of Lies Passing through like an arrow Oh , if your vision collapsed And a storm from the river Like a golden medalion Clutching tight in your fingers But on the slope of the edge Will you recover your life You could stand on the back of a shuddering beam With a pistol firing shots into the air You could run in the blood of the Sun's hard rays You could drive the mountains down into the bay Or go back to the East where it's all so civilized Where I was born to the life But I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving