The Sound of Music

My day in the hills
has come to an end, I know
A star has come out
to tell me it's time to go
But deep
in the dark green shadows
Are voices that urge me to stay
So I pause
and I wait and I listen
For one more sound
For one more lovely thing
That the hills might say!
The hills are alive
with the sound of music
With songs they have sung
for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart
with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing
every song it hears
My heart wants to beat
like the wings
of the birds that rise
from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh
like a chime that flies
from a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook
when it trips
and falls over stones on its way
To sing through the night
like a lark
who is learning to pray
I go to the hills
when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear
what I've heard before
My heart will be blessed
with the sound of music
And I'll sing once more