Steven Sater - The Song of Purple Summer lyrics

ILSE Listen to what's in the heart of a child A song so big and one so small Soon you will hear where beauty lies You'll hear and you'll recall The sadness the doubt All the loss, the grief Will belong to some play from the past As the child leads the way to a dream A belief A time of hope through the land A summer's day A mother sings A song of purple summer Through the heart of everything ALL And heaven waits So close it seems To show her child the wonders Of a world beyond her dreams The earth will wave with corn The day so wild, so warm And mares will neigh With stallions that they mate Foals they've born And all shall know the wonder of purple summer..... And yet I wait The swallow brings A song too hard to follow That no one else can sing The fences sway The porches swing The clouds begin to thunder Crickets wander murmuring The earth will wave with corn The day so wild, so warm And mares will neigh With stallions that they mate Foals they've born And all shall know the wonder I will sing the song of purple summer And all shall know the wonder I will sing the song of purple summer All shall know the wonder of purple summer.....