Mystery and wonder did light up the valley   To be beat back by dark clouds   And a harsh reeking wind      And that battle staggered through three awful months   To stop for a minute   Just to start up again      Your hands like birds in the trees   If the trees themselves were all on fire   Your hips on mine make a choir   Singing "Baruch atta adonai"      And the river never made it to the lake   So the lake surrendered to the mountains   And the mountain's heart did fucking break   At the sight   Of your nervous hands      And oh, my love, so gently breathing   So my heart does softly swell   So her and me did greet the evening   With much red wine and giddy yells      In these times of wandering soldiers   Building towers on ruined field   I hold my love to my belly   And her feel breath fall across my hands      I have grown tired of the struggle   And I've grown tired of making plans   I think I'll quit to the valley   Regain my strength and start again      Where once we were some clumsy army   And now we are just lazy hens   I think I'll quit to the valley   'Til the light moves me again      So let's link arms, sisters and brothers   And let's promise not to retreat   Well, there is glory in our failure   So let's march to the rhythm of fatigue      To live our lives without leaders   To live in joy without fear   Let's walk together to the valley   And let the lights redeem our tears