Refuge lyrics

When I was a girl we’d skate in the night

Like Sufi dancers round the firelight

Elton John singing from the speakers above

Falling on my knees wished I was falling in love

Walking home under the Northern lights

You could see clear cross the world to the other side

The snow fell so still like music to the ground

And I’d take refuge in that holy sound

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I take refuge, I take refuge, I take refuge in that holy sound

I take refuge, I take refuge, I take refuge in that holy sound

Now I’m skating on ice that is dangerously thin

Trying not to show the world the shape I’m in

I’m an orphan in a land carved of misery

I’ve been pampered but I feel just like a refugee

Through a thousand t.v. stations

Cross the static lines

And the virtual creations that stimulate my mind

I run to where you’re sleeping, where there’s no-one around

And I take refuge in that holy sound

(Chorus)

Like a hobo waiting for that final train

Like the thunder in the desert just before it rains

I keep one eye on the future, my ear to the ground

And I take refuge in that holy sound

I keep one eye on the future my ear to the ground

And I take refuge in that holy sound