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Crystal Creek Lyrics by Dar Williams

In the Time of Gods

2012

[Verse 1]
You so fleet and youthful must have split a thousand apples
Oh, I watched you as you steadied first your heart, then your breath
Venturing out you scanned a thousand blades of grass
And when you drew your bowstring, it was a swift and cordial death
As you stood in the wilderness
Did you feel the silence in the stillness?
[Chorus]
That was me
With you in the forest
For you knew the balances, the balances before us
I was guarding Crystal, Crystal Creek
[Verse 2]
Oh, a tree it's a record, a home of memories
And every bird springs from an old master's canvas, full in flight
And the pond I go to sparkles in a vast estuary
And those men saw nothing, staring drunken through their sights
The one who spied me out as goods to plunder
I had to show the world that he was not a true hunter
[Chorus]
That was me
When he saw me naked
He was interrupting something sacred
I was guarding Crystal, Crystal Creek
[Verse 3]
And the newsmen circled, leaving trails of cigarette butts
Machine like, up the hill to Crystal Creek
"James," she said, "Who would do this thing I've seen today?
I cannot hold my mic, my hands are shaking, knees are weak"
"They found a man and he was wrapped in a deerskin
Riddled through with boxes of his friends' ammunition
Turn the camera off," she said
[Chorus]
And that was me
Oh, my noble animals
You must act with reverence
With reverence, not like cannibals
I was guarding Crystal, Crystal Creek
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Dar Williams

Dar Williams

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