One night I was driving home down the A6 from Manchester about 1a.m.

Somwhere just outside of Buxton. A great big owl swooped down into my headlights beam. I slowed down and it flew alongside me, about the height of my wing mirror, in my slipstream. It flew off into the night, but before doing so told me the secret of life. And thats how relationships are on the road - brief, but intense!

Owl Song

There is an ancient magic, the owl said to me
she flew into my headlight's beam , saying listen carefully
We that take the midnight hours, we travel joylessly
And I, a talonned predator - I don't need to see,
The heart that sits inside of you, I feel its muffled beat
Listen to the music of your heart, are you wedded to defeat
I know you sang to rabble all night long,
alien words, in   a subject tongue
I'm flying now in your slipstream, and I can speak the magic rune
From the walls of my temple, mix it with your trashy tune

On such a night when the stars are restless
Its written on a sky of midnight blue
Its like an old time magic show
The magician casts his spell and says lo!
Lo and behold
All the floors of heaven are lined with gold

Long after midnight, travellin' east out of Manchester
First the closed up towns, and then the lonely hills
the road it twists and turns, and turns and twists before me,
Like a lifetime of sadness that never bending to my will
Her finger - a ring encloses, so does her breast enfold my heart
I sing to the darkness sentimental songs,
Songs that say we will never part
I felt the Talonned owl falling from the sky, to a valley spread below
Joe Cocker was singing "Bird on a Wire"
I snapped off the radio

On such a night when the stars are restless
Its written on a sky of midnight blue
Its like an old time magic show
The magician casts his spell and says lo!
Lo and behold
All the floors of heaven are lined with gold