The Higher Road - Matthew Lien

Here I stand in Bressanone With the stars up in the sky Are they shining over Brenner And upon the other side You would be a sweet surrender But I must go the other way And my train will carry me onward Though my heart would surely stay Oh my heart would surely stay... Now the clouds are flying by me And the moon is on the rise I have left the stars behind me They were diamonds in your skies You would be a sweet surrender But I must go the other way And my train will carry me onward Though my heart would surely stay Oh my heart would surely stay...

Everything is so unclear, how could we ever let this happen here And with the turn of every page, another picture worth a thousand tears Reading on with great dismay, another tanker has lost its way And ninety million gallons spilled into the sea today () Don't make me tell bedtime stories 'Bout how it was when the Earth still had trees Don't make me tell bedtime stories Livin'in a world of why and might have been Tellin' all about how I remember when You can see it everywhere, we're adding colour to our atmosphere Still we let the fires burn, we haven't got a lot of room up there Now it seems this whole affair is burnin' holes in an ozone layer Well maybe I'm mistaken, but don't we need to breathe this air Don't make me tell bedtime stories () Think it's time we recongnize, we've got a problem in paradise 'Bout how it was when the Earth still had trees Don't make me tell bedtime stories Livin'in a world of why and might have been Tellin' all about how I remember when Think it's time we recongnize, we've got a problem in paradise Angels fall from troubled skies, wolves lay bleeding out upon the ice Some would say "just carry on, close your eyes now and don't think twice" Well, given our direction, this doesn't really seem like sound advice Don't make me tell bedtime stories 'Bout how it was when the Earth still had trees Don't make me tell bedtime stories