Golden Thread

Mary Black

I looked into a mirror made of lines

With tiny symbols here and there to make the image mine

A woman stood and painted and showed me what to find

The different parts, the fire, the air, and where my life would climb

And where it joins another, and what would always bind



Chorus:

It's a golden thread to hold you all of my days

Hold my head against you now and for always

Sewn me up, shown us a long, long time

Makes you my life, makes you my life



The moving finger writes and goes away

I'm weighed upon a balance here and I'm told that I can stay

The kettle heats, the water speaks up, says I'm not alone

My whole life is a tapestry and hanging in my home

And here it joins another by what will always bind



(Chorus)



And when you looked, your angel flew away

And what it meant was your protection's gone another day

And what has come to change you, and have you come what may

Is fashioned by an old triangle, green as April haze

Blue is just a color, but blue is here to stay



It's a golden thread to hold you all of my days

Hold my head against you now and for always

Sewn me up, shown us a long, long time

Makes you my life



(Chorus)



Makes you my life