From the recording 2001 • City (collaborations with peter gabriel's real world/hector zazou/joe jackson ...)
Lyrics
my mother
is not the white dove
oh my mother
she is the flight of the white dove
and when i do not feel her feeling me that is when i am lost
my mother
she is the blackness against which the stars are pressed
and when i do not feel her feeling me that is when i am truly lost
my mother
she is the long cry that is pulled from our hearts
as we lift our faces from the lap of loneliness
my mother
she is not the white dove
she is the flight of the...