[ti:A mirror to the past]
[ar:Matthew Lien]
[al:Caribou Commons]

[00:00.00]===A Mirror To The Past ====
[00:01.00]From the "Caribou Commons" CD
[00:02.00](c)(p) Matthew Lien / Whispering Willows Music 1999
[00:03.00]*  Edited by  *
[00:05.00]
[00:33.50]Held within a sacred place
[00:37.99]Antiquity in shades of grace
[00:42.40]The lines you carve upon the ground
[00:46.39]Are lines within the Elder's face
[00:49.98]
[00:50.92]Something is becoming clear
[00:55.17]Everything is ancient here
[00:59.31]The rivers flowing 'cross the plains
[01:03.36]The hills that over look the same
[01:06.89]
[01:07.00](Chorus)
[01:07.33]And you are the wind that blows throughout
[01:11.76]You are so hard to sing about
[01:15.90]You are the blood within my veins
[01:20.19]A mirror to the past remains
[01:32.17]
[01:43.92]Turning back the page of time
[01:47.37]The hour-glass of arctic sands
[01:51.75]Reveals a former common ground
[01:55.75]The Great Plains of the southern lands
[01:59.93]
[02:00.25]Dark upon the golden plain
[02:04.39]Shadows still recount the view
[02:08.59]The nation of the buffalo
[02:12.61]The nation of the caribou
[02:16.99]
[02:17.00](Bridge)
[03:10.68]
[03:12.13]The tribes across the southern plains
[03:15.78]With weathered eyes and standing tall
[03:20.28]Have heard the cries and felt the pain
[03:24.18]To see the mighty nations fall
[03:27.87]
[03:28.70]Now blowing through the empty hall
[03:32.67]The leaves of summer turned to fall
[03:37.03]With Sandhill Cranes a last recall
[03:41.03]To wild things that shared it all
[03:44.92]
[03:45.00](Chorus)
[03:45.53]And you are the wind that blows without
[03:49.31]You are so hard to sing about
[03:53.31]You are the blood within my veins
[03:57.95]A mirror to the past remains