Weather Report Suite (Live at Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, May 19, 1974)

Lyrics

[Prelude] [Instrumental] [Part 1] [Verse 1] Winter rain, now tell me why Summers fade, and roses die The answer came The wind and rain [Verse 2] Golden hills, now veiled in gray Summer leaves have blown away And what remains? The wind and rain [Chorus] And like a desert spring My lover comes and spreads her wings (Flowing) Like a song that's born to soar the sky (Flowing) Flowing 'til the waters all are dry (Flowing) The loving in her eyes [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] Circle songs and sands of time And summers will end in tumbled rhyme And little change The wind and rain [Chorus] And like a desert spring My lover comes and spreads her wings (Flowing) Like a song that's born to soar the sky (Flowing) Flowing 'til the waters all are dry (Flowing) The loving in her eyes [Outro] Winter gray and falling rain We'll see summer come again Darkness falls and seasons change (Gonna happen every time) The same old friends, the wind and rain (But we'll see summer by and by) Winter gray and falling rain (Seasons change and roses die) We'll see summer come again (Don't they know, gonna happen every time) Darkness falls and seasons change (Seasons change and roses die) The same old friends the wind and rain (Like a song that's born to soar the sky) [Part 2: Let It Grow] [Verse 1] Morning comes, she follows the path to the river shore Lightly sung, her song is the latch on the morning's door See the sun sparkle in the reeds Silver beads, pass into the sea She comes from the town where they call her the woodcutter's daughter And she's brown as the bank where she kneels down to gather her water And she bears it away with a love that the river has taught her [Refrain] Let it flow, let it flow, wide and clear [Verse 2] Round and round, the cut of the plow in the furrowed field Seasons round, the bushels of corn and the barley meal Broken ground, open and beckoning to the spring Black dirt live again The plowman is broad as the back of the land he's sowing As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing That the work of his days measures more than the planting and growing [Refrain] Let it grow, greatly grow, greatly yield [Bridge] What shall we say, shall we call it by a name? As well to count the angels dancing on a pin Water bright as the sky from which it came And the name is on the earth that takes it in We will not speak but stand inside the rain And listen to the thunder shout "I am! I am! I am! I am!" [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] Round and round... So it goes... Seasons round, creatures great and small Up and down as we rise and fall [Instrumental Break] [Outro] What shall we say, shall we call it by a name? As well to count the angels dancing on a pin Water bright as the sky from which it came And the name is on the earth that takes it in We will not speak but stand inside the rain And listen to the thunder shout "I am! I am! I am! I am!" [Instrumental]