Morning Is the Long Way Home Lyrics

The song Morning Is the Long Way Home is performed by Leo Kottke in the album named One Guitar, No Vocals in the year 1999 .



Morning is the Long Way Home

by Leo Kottke
Copyright 1973 Overdrive Music/ASCAP
recorded by Leo Kottke on:
1973 "Ice Water" (Capitol)
1987 "The Best of Leo Kottke" (Capitol)

I heard your voice at midnight
By the river shore
I saw your child sleeping
Behind an open door
The moon was in the river
Shining up from the floor
And the fish swam like moonlight
Through your child's closing door
And morning is the long way home

The fisherman was drowning
By his broken heel
His screams were tiny bubbles
And his tongue made of steel
When he died his teeth made stones
For your lonely child to feel
And his eyes like prayers were quiet
When you heard his tongues of steel
And morning is the long way home

The ghost of ghosts was pa*sing
And the gra*ses waved like hair
I Knew I'd die forgotten
I'm the whisper of your care
The water would surround me
And my body would despair
But my heart would understand
The door that's closing there
And morning is the long way home



Leo Kottke - One Guitar, No Vocals

Jun 1999

  1. Snorkel
  2. Morning Is the Long Way Home
  3. Too Fast
  4. Three/Quarter North
  5. Retrograde
  6. Chamber of Commerce
  7. From "Little Treasure"
  8. Bigger Situation
  9. Accordion Bells
  10. Peckerwood
  11. Blimp
  12. Even His Feet Look Sad

Morning Is the Long Way Home