Thousand Year Prayer

Here we all are at the end

Of this century of beauty and loss

Greedily ate what you gave us

The rest we tossed

We've trapped all your rivers, paved every pass

Pulled out your sky till we caused it to rip

But you've got Jimi Hendrix

So let's call it an even split

I've met a girl who has turned

My whole world upside down

The stars I once stretched for

Now, litter the ground

Cursed by too little lies

And too much belief

In the strength of another man's words

But I've got a girl, thank you, Lord

Here we all are at the start

Of another thousand year

All those love stories

Yet to be told

Ours is this river

Asleep at our feet

Blessed by this wet autumn day

Here we all are