Lark - Josh Ritter

The golden ratio, the shell

The stairs ascending 'round themselves

The trees rustle as if to kneel and listen

The heartbeat of a lark

Or the lark in my heartbeat

The oxygen in priestly green

The answers dressed in labyrinthine

The telescopes atop the mountains of ecstatic vision

Listening to the heartbeat of a lark

Or the lark in my heartbeat

Hey, hey, hey, hey

I am assured, yes, I am assured, yes

I am assured peace will come to me

A peace that can, yes, surpass the speed, yes

Of my understanding and my need

The meteoric warp and wend

In counterbalance to the sparks ever ascending

The arrow time shoots forward though it moves through repetition

The heartbeat of a lark

Or a lark in my heartbeat

Hey, hey, hey, hey

What is it drives the driven snow?

Upon whose temples will I rest my weary hopes now?

The rain distills down steeples fills the ears of lonely church mice

With the heartbeat of a lark

Or the lark in my heartbeat