Testo Sacred Mountain - Dar Williams

Sacred Mountain

I, oh, I
See beyond the cloud of the mind
To the blue of the sky
The water is calm
And the air is clear
In the eye of the mind is the sacred mountain

Time, oh, time
We listened to the stories told
Of a cave in the cold
The holy ones pray for a century of days
They chant for the world from the sacred mountain

I have seen the sacred mountain, oh
Where the teacher was born in the lake from a lotus
And he crossed through the snow to the east
With a message that he held in his breath
And they told me

In my life
The dawning of the day to the night
Was the same gray light
A blanketing of smoke
And a catch in the throat
But I lived in the time of the sacred mountain

Oh, but now
There's a change in the air I breathe
There is talk in the streets
That the engines have stopped
And a mountain top
Has appeared in the clear, the clear of the distance

So, I sit
I don't wanna see with my eyes
If it's all just a lie
But the curtains are thin
And they rise in the wind
To the peaks of the sacred mountain

I have seen the sacred mountain, oh
And the sky. It was blue with the snow pigeons flying
And the snow on the peak that I knew like a pyramid
Path of the great Padmasambhava
Who crossed in the snow to the east with the message

I could breathe the air
There were people in the square
And I joined them
We made up the plans and we drafted petitions
Sending the graphs and the charts to the parliament
For a law to reduce the particulates
For all Sentient life on Earth

Sentient life on Earth

Yes. I know
They'd only move the factory down
To another town
It's never gonna change
Like a mountain range
Like a sacred truth, a sacred mountain

As I look
At a never-ending cold gray dawn
The horizon gone
I look and I find
With the eye of the mind
What I see, what I'll tell the children listening

I have seen the sacred mountain, oh
There's a lake and a guide and his endless compassion
And the path that he climbed with a joy that is limitless
We will work with the mind
'Til the mountain—'til the mountain is what we see
Is what we breathe in time