[Intro: Robert Bly]
We are leaving our time now
We are leaving our time now
There are places where time moves more slowly than here
We honor all four directions
East, West, North, South…

[Verse 1]
In the fatherlight
I lost my compass and I lost my sight
At the fireside
I sat too close and then I burned my eyes
And was it temperament
That kept us from saying all the things we meant?

[Chorus]
Fatherlight
Fatherlight
Fatherlight

[Verse 2]
Hear the city call
With faster highways and with alcohol
Can we synchronize
With time so different, generation-wise?
And was it temperament
That kept us from saying all the things we meant?
In the countryside
(so many things now I cannot tell you)
I lost my country when I left your side
(the broken bones of a shattered world view)
Now you think I’m gone
(and in the ER lights I saw you)
But take my hand and let me prove you wrong…
(reaching up like you thought you might break through)

[Chorus]
Fatherlight
Fatherlight

[Outro: Robert Bly]
And we also honor the fifth direction
The vertical one
Which is in us
Today, here