Mother Earth, Devour Me

Deep, deep in the northern wilderness

I was enjoying the good kind of loneliness

I've been waking up beneath an azure blue sky

From the song of some chaffinches nearby

The bright sun shines in the dancing leaves so green

This forest must be the most beautiful sight I've seen

The gentle roar of the rivers, a nature lovers psalm

And my favorite lake, so beautiful and calm

If it would only hide the reflection of my face

This could have been my ideal place

But the mountains won't hold back my sadness much longer

Even a tough man could wish he had been stronger

The birds sang for me today in a way as if they knew

That when I gazed at the sky my thoughts were just as blue

Underneath a summer night sky of both sun and the moon

Now only the sad song of a lonely black-throated loon

And deep, deep inside a northern forest

Down under the surface of my lake dearest

Mother earth my pain forever will erase

And my tired body forever embrace

The birds sang for me today in a way as if they knew

That when I gazed at the sky my thoughts were just as blue

Underneath a summer night sky of both sun and the moon

Now only the sad song of a lonely black-throated loon

And deep, deep inside a northern forest

Down under the surface of my lake dearest

Mother earth my pain forever will erase

And my tired body forever embrace