Alone with my thoughts this evening
 I walked on the banks of Tyne
 I wondered how I could win you
 Or if I could make you mine
 Or if I could make you mine

 The wind it was so insistent
 With tales of a stormy south
 But when I spied two birds in a sycamore tree
 There came a dryness in my mouth
 Came a dryness in my mouth

 For then without rhyme or reason
 The two birds did rise up to fly
 And where the two birds were flying
 I swear I saw you and I
 I swear I saw you and I

 I walked out this morning
 It was like a veil had been removed from before my eyes
 For the first time I saw the work of heaven
 In the line where the hills had been married to the sky
 And all around me
 Every blade of singing grass
 Was calling out your name
 And that our love would always last
 And inside every turning leaf
 Is the pattern of an older tree
 The shape of our future
 The shape of all our history
 And out of the confusion
 Where the river meets the sea
 Came things I'd never seen
 Things I'd never seen

 I was brought to my senses
 I was blind but now that I can see
 Every signpost in nature
 Said you belong to me

 I know it's [bad word]  It's written in a sky as blue
 As blue as your eyes
 As blue as your eyes
 If nature's red in tooth and claw
 Like winter's freeze and summer's thaw
 The wounds she gave me
 Were the wounds that would heal me
 And we'd be like the moon and sun
 And when our courtly dance [bad word]  Its course across the sky
 Then together we would lie
 And out of the confusion
 Where the river meets the sea
 Something new would arrive
 Something better would arrive

 I was brought to my senses
 I was blind but now that I can see
 Every signpost in nature
 Said you belong to me
 I was brought to my senses
 I was blind but now that I can see
 Every signpost in nature
 Said you belong to me...