Thistle and Vine

From the thistle and vine

From the thicket of thorn

Into the light of the morning

Out from the briar patch, gone

In a flicker of light

Into the glimmer of dawn

Slipping out at the daybreak

With the rise of the sun

In the ticking of time

From the clock on the wall

Ring the bells of a new day

Sing the words of this song

As the cripple creek winds

Along the bend in the road

Through the cut of the canyon

Into the wake of what’s gone

In the literal mind

Of the words as they're known

Comes the turn of a new phrase

Twisted off an old one

Down from the rain in the sky

Onto the earth where it falls

Through the Rock of the Ages

Through the Roll of the Souls

In the blink of an eye

In the wink of one more

Slipping back in the nightfall

By the light of the stars

Bring the whistle and rhyme

Into the twisted knot hole

Another day in a lifetime

Back to the briar patch, gone