Great Lake Swimmers - New Light Lyrics

The sound of breathing
The silence intense
The hearts are pounding
Endlessly here

The wind tumbling steadily
Traded between us
It becomes a wild
And powerful strength

New light

You took my wind
And gave me your wind
It passes between us
Invisible, pure

The patterns in motion
The birds in their forms
The horizon is only
A point on the map

New light

The holy head dressed
With feathers and howling
The mother protects
The young and the worn

The clouded dusk drops
The burning sun cracks
The natural world
Reinvents itself

And turning the wheel
The iron fears crying
The walls moan and sing
As they shift in the wind

The night is a prayer
That beckons the dawn
Hopeful and patient
For new light to come

New light