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Thread #11075   Message #960680
Posted By: Little Hawk
28-May-03 - 02:23 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Wendigo (Dwain Story) (some call it Windigo)
Subject: Lyr Add: WENDIGO (George Coventry)
Matter of fact, I wrote a song back in '94 called "Wendigo." Here are the lyrics:

WENDIGO
Key of Em

I'm in a car with some girl I don't know
Bob Dylan's on the radio
Singing "Absolutely Sweet Marie"
It's not the shadowed hollows of her face
That keep me hidden here within my space
But only that she seems so much like me
The highway rolls, the miles fall back behind
The empty fields, the fading yellow lines
An epitaph for the white man's broken dreams
And nothing measures up to what was lost
No one alive can grasp or tell the cost
And this girl is not the child she seems

I hear her screaming in the wind...aaahhh...Wendigo!
I feel the night come closing in...aaahhh...Wendigo!

Girl, I want to fall in love so bad
Reclaim the feelings I once had
Chase down the phantoms of my youth
And if there's anything that we can do
I only hope this time it will be true
Cos nothing else can stand beside the truth
The autumn moon is shining bright and clear
Some voice is ringing in my ear
Maybe it's an angel, I don't know
If I am dreaming let it just go on
Like a never-ending siren song
Like a wave out of the long ago

I hear her crying in the wind...aaahhh...Wendigo!
I feel the night come closing in...aaahhh...Wendigo!

I want to find the love that still is left
After all the violence and the theft
After all the lies and crazy deeds
After the black robes and the shame
The sacrifice of honour, pride and name
The prison of desires, wants and needs
I can drive all night, I'm a patient man
I can wait for the dawn, I can sit or stand
But I won't lie down until it's done
Not until we're living free of sin
Innocent as snowflakes in the wind
Like two wildflowers in the sun

I hear her crying in the wind...aaahhh...Wendigo!
I feel the night come closing in...aaahhh...Wendigo!

I was born upon this land, you see
And it will always be a part of me
And it will always live there in my blood
No government can take this love away
No matter what the price or what they say
Not by the iron hand or the velvet glove
And darling, I have seen your eyes before
Like the falling sky on the Arctic shore
Rolling like a river, deep and strong
And I will drive until it all comes down
Till the lightning falls on a broken crown
And we finally right this grievous wrong

I hear her screaming in the wind...aaahhh...Wendigo!
I feel the night come closing in...aaahhh...Wendigo!

I'm in a car with some girl I don't know
Bob Dylan's on the radio
Singin' "Absolutely Sweet Marie"
It's not the shadowed hollows of her face
It's just a vision time cannot erase
And this girl is not a child, you see

I hear her crying in the wind...aaahhh...Wendigo!
I feel the night come closing in...aaahhh...Wendigo!

Copyright © 1994 George Coventry
Words and Music by George Coventry