1. This Stream Will Rise
2. Never Felt at Rest
3. A Desire for Forgetfulness
4. Events in the Engadine
5. Cathedral Steps
6. Joseph
7. Immanuel
8. The Sound of Retreat
9. Alea Iacta Est
10. Rumination
11. If It Be Your Will
12. Saint Conan’s Kirk
13. The Portrait Group
14. A Fountain in the Cloister
15. Ninon
16. Is It for Long, Is It Forever

This Stream Will Rise
Lyrics are forthcoming.

Never Felt at Rest
Who called you up to the hilltop
Who summoned you here for this view
A Sunday rest at the top of the crest
With church bells on the hour
In my heart of hearts there’s singing
Everywhere a sound
No mourning, no fruitless searching
I’ve never felt this rest

Go and see and breathe again
Slowly take it in again
Let the storms pass by my friend
It’s finally time to rest

Long gone is the disenchantment
The thoughts that came from far away
Safe as the birds in the treetops
A ship that came slowly to shore
How the wonder slowly unraveled
How the twilight burned sleep from the eyes
And my whispering starts as it starts to grow dark
I’ve never felt this rest

Go and see and breathe again...

A Desire for Forgetfulness
Lyrics are forthcoming.

Events in the Engadin
Lyrics are forthcoming.

Cathedral Steps
You came without notice
You left on a whim
The all too familiar grew foreign again
And no one could follow, you left us few trails
And no one could say they once knew you well

The lure of a journey
You took to the road
With every new letter I wanted to go
Will you be back by Sunday put an end to the search
Will I find you again on the steps of the church

Will you meet me on cathedral steps
We’ve got a lot of catching up to do a lot of past regrets

Can you picture a day with the sun closing in
Those great songs of summer erased by the wind
The calender moves and I voice my concern
I will reread those letters I have stories to learn

Will you meet me...

Joseph
Lyrics are forthcoming.

Immanuel
Lyrics are forthcoming.

The Sound of Retreat
Listening passively to conversation on this train
It is now that I long to be warm inside my own bed
I’ve returned, it must still hold some meaning
This night rings hollow across the land

It was the sound of Union Street that shook me awake
And by the window I watched for what had seemed like hours
It’s been days since I’ve spoken more than a couple of words
But thoughts have been good company

At night on a hill I gave my decree
I have walked all alone through the streets of Dundee
I have endured, and I have waited
And I have abandoned, for some other time

At the People’s Palace, the shores of the North Sea
The bridges at Perth and the footpath along the Ness
The Highland rain that turned the skin a cool summer red
A sense of wonder, and a sense of time

There are birds overhead calling out as they dive
As the vagrants drink their lunches on the sun kissed banks of the Clyde
The Oban harbor at night, Saint Conan’s Kirk
Wet with rain and still as stone

(Chorus)

There was a time when I held I’d never be content until I settled here
But the pasture so fervently sought,
gives way to the sound of retreat

Alea Iacta Est
Lyrics are forthcoming.

Rumination
Lyrics are forthcoming.

If It Be Your Will
Lyrics are forthcoming.

Saint Conan’s Kirk
Lyrics are forthcoming.

The Portrait Group
Lyrics are forthcoming.

A Fountain in the Cloister
Lyrics are forthcoming.

Ninon
Lyrics are forthcoming.

Is It for Long, Is It Forever
Lyrics are forthcoming.

Copyright 2007 The Gate International. All rights reserved.
Allsongs copyright 2007 Montagnola Music (BMI).
All music and lyrics written by Mark Renner except If It Be Your Will written by Leonard Cohen copyright Sony/ATV Songs LLC.
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