The Forest Brought Me Home

Oh-oh, the green is singing
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh, the green is singing
And it's holding me close, I am home

The road ran out where the birches lean
And the mist came down like a door
I laid my old walking-song to rest
On the moss and the leaf and the loam
And low through the dark came a small wren's voice
Older than any I've known
The willows drew back like a curtain of green
As if the wood had known I'd come

So I set down my boots and my burden
And a hush comes over me slow
There's a light between the branches
And it's glowing soft and low

For the forest brought me home
In a voice as green as the sea is deep
And the standing stones remember my name
And the old gods stir in their sleep
I have walked down every road there was
To stand where the mosslight roams
Now lay me down in the living dark
For the forest brought me home

The oaks are older than any crown
With ivy where kings once wore gold
And the deer step out with their careful eyes
And they lead me down into the grove
There's a ring of stones in the hazel-dark
Where the first of all fires once shone
And the mist lies down at my weary feet
Like it knew me long ago

So I set down my boots and my burden
And a hush comes over me slow
There's a light between the branches
And it's glowing soft and low

For the forest brought me home
In a voice as green as the sea is deep
And the standing stones remember my name
And the old gods stir in their sleep
I have walked down every road there was
To stand where the mosslight roams
Now lay me down in the living dark
For the forest brought me home

No map was ever drawn for this hollow
No inn, no crossroad, no door
Just the hush and the harp of the running stream
And a song I've known before
And I am not lost, I am gathered in
I am moss, I am stone, I am foam
And the whole green world lifts up its voice

For the forest brought me home
In a voice as green as the sea is deep
And the standing stones remember my name
And the old gods stir in their sleep
I have walked down every road there was
To stand where the mosslight roams
Now lay me down in the living dark
For the forest brought me home

Oh-oh, the green is singing
Oh-oh, I'm finally home
Oh-oh, the green is singing
And I'm never walking alone