Darien

I remember the day when we started the climb up the hill

our eyes full of moonshine, momentum-fuelled forces of will

my friend, did I tell you the way I was feeling

the dream was the conquest the sky was the ceiling

now what’s left to be done, it feels now like I’ve had my fill

They told us that all we’d accomplish was waste all our time

but obsession won’t listen to reason or rhythm or rhyme

thought we’d fight our way out of the foothills and then

find a higher plateau and start over again

but now no one but you knows how much this has weighed on my mind

And I know she’s out there somewhere beyond where eyes can see

a motherlode of fortune bode with serendipity

reclines on her veranda as she waits for such as we

somewhere a mirror river run, somewhere a clearer sea

Is that the horizon we’ve only heard rumours about

stretched out beneath us despite all their laughter and doubt

she beckoned and called us from out on the verge

the seasons receded, the seasons resurged

they’ll never know what it is that they’re going without

We hear the stories echo from her seat of embassy

the avenues of polished druse, the laughter from the quay

she speaks from shattered silence underneath her canopy

you’d better move or I will fade, I make no guarantee

All roads lead away again

silently from a peak in Darien

We couldn’t have got here believing in all that they said

what else do we do but climb down now and press on ahead

there are sights to be seen

are you coming my friend

there’ll be chances to rest at the real journey’s end

that ocean of oceans demands that we sail her and cross

though she may see us dead

And I know she’s out there waiting from her realm of sorcery

where grows the balm of peace and calm where freedom’s really free

a paradise eternal, oh she cannot help but be

somewhere a mirror river run, somewhere a greener lea