Emmy The Great - North lyrics

There's a place where I'm gonna leave to When all this questioning is through I'm gonna set my course to somewhere further north Than my eyes have ever viewed And though I know that the thought precedes me I know that others seek it, too But when I get where the needle leads me Well, I swear and I swear you'll never lead me away again And in the time when the peace of islands Was first by human hand disturbed They built their houses and they said obedience Was all the lives of men were worth And in the shadows of their temperance They laid boundaries in the dirt And when the door had a narrow entrance With their hands to their shirts They would pray for the non-believers And there's a place called North And they're gathering there to sing And I knock three times and beg them But they will not let me in And oh my girl, they say, you're the carrier to no gift But I'll lay what I can somewhere north of the sand Would you turn me away again? And do you go where the needle leads to? And when you get there will you change? Out where the nights are soft And now you go because you think that paradise should be tamed And now you live as by a map of humanity And now you grip it 'cause you think that it saves But I've seen what you see and it's different to me I see lights to the shore And all these hearts beating other rhythms Now they die to be born And all their mysteries are dying with them And there's a place called North And you're gathering there to sing And I knock three times and beg you But you will not let me in But oh, I loved so hard, now I'm carrier to this gift And I'll lay what I can somewhere north of the sand Would you turn me away again? And would these winds would lift And they'd carry me to your door And I knock three times and tell you I can't help where I was born But don't I love enough, isn't holiness where it falls? If I take what I have to the north, Is there room on your piece of Heaven? Or would you turn me away again?