Alcatraz Lyrics - Singles - The Gathering Field

Steven and I hitch-hiking 

Our day off to Hanover 

Beat up car with young girl driving 

Slow down and pull over 

In the rear view mirror 

Like co-conspirators we did smile 

I did not know that I was running 

I saw the sunlight streaming 

Down on the landscape 

Of my Alcatraz escape 

From the sadness 'twas born in my soul 

Three years passed, still I was suffering 

Spent that March in Charlottesville 

Saw the ghost of Thomas Jefferson 

Sitting on my window sill 

With his thin powdered hair 

And his concubine there he did smile 

I did not know that I was running 

I saw the twilight gleaming 

Down on the landscape 

Of my Alcatraz escape 

From the sadness 'twas born in my soul 

I went down through the labyrinth 

Of my falsified regret 

Deep in flight from the light in my soul 

Oh what a complicated tapestry I sewed 

All that energy I wasted on my fear 

All those years spent stumbling down that lonesome road 

It's not very clear 

How far or how near I have come 

I did not know that I was running 

I see the sunlight streaming 

Down on the landscape....