Thoughts From Places: Norway

This is a new place with an old friend

plus some new friends too

This is a place where homes hide

behind each other on the hillside

Where every street

seems to lead you in circles

so you can lose yourself in the city

I never knew

there were places like this

Places that keep statues of themselves

to remind them of who they were

and who they still are

Places that hold onto memories of people

like the hands of children we don't want to grow up

There are places that keep happiness

stored between every tree

in each breath of air

I'm inhaling the scent of this new home

it tastes like liberty

There are places where the sun

hardly empties the sky

and when it does our laughter

is still echoing off the cliffsides

our smiles do not fade like the horizon does

There are places where the rain

kisses the ground like sailors do

when they've come home

a year passed over the waves

Places that have pieces of yourself

the ones you were only starting to feel missing

There are places where water is your only road

we're still floating when we reach the shore

arms to the side as we fly

feet hardly touching the ground

our footsteps disappear behind us

we seek the pulpit

I'll preach to you my story

because you catch sun rays in your hands

and put them in my pockets

so I carry the courage

I need when we leap to the next stone

hoping our feet know where to land

There are places where you don't feel

the clock tick

so when the starts peek through the sky

you're left wondering where the time went

so we return home

wearing the dirt of the day

it stained our skin but

I want it that way

I want to remember

how innocence brightens your eyes

and how we lift our heads when music plays

I want to remember

standing at the precipice

looking out over the edge

eyes watering, body trembling

we are alive

we are infinite

I want to remember these people

who made me feel this

made me feel like the music around me

was only soaring because I was

because we were

we are

growing roots in each other

the wind can blow us away

it cannot blow us apart

there are places like this

they are waiting for you

you just have to find them

the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c9vnfvJPrk&feature=feedu