Seasonal Lake

[Verse] Almost too careless, my foot nearly stepped on the wilting mushrooms of a fairy ring. In the dry lakebed of summer, the fallen reeds and bare scrub twigs cracked [Verse] like potsherds underfoot as I walked in the bottom of this bowl of land. The horizon ends a hundred paces from me on every side. [Chorus] Every year, the seasonal lake fills then ebbs away. Every year again, friends and people exit from our lives as casually as they had entered it. [Verse] But the rains have come, and the hundred paces of my sky are filled with sodden clods of cloud reflected from this brown lake of no inlets and no outlets. [Verse] The salamanders sun themselves at the edge of the water. A heron lands and nods his head, then flies above the trees. Lagunita, [Chorus] Every year, the seasonal lake fills then ebbs away. Every year again, friends and people exit from our lives as casually as they had entered it. [Conclusion] the rains have come again to scatter the blossoms of the reddening plum. Until summer comes again, may you dream of fishes swimming in your freshly fallen waters. [Harp Ending] then ebbs away. Every year again, friends and people exit from our lives as casually as they had entered it. [Ending Verse] the rains have come again to scatter the blossoms of the reddening plum. Until summer comes again, may you dream of fishes swimming in your freshly fallen waters. [Harp Ending]