This Blue World Is Full of Joy

I had nothing more to sing My guitar-picking hands Were dull, and cold, and damp Like a blowfish on a jetty bank Soaking in the spray On a wounded Winter's Day Last night I dreamed I was on a wooden beam And a bushfire raged on both sides. I dove into the darkness And awoke, with the moonlight in my eyes There's an arrow in my tree There's a chasm in my sea There's a rider roping me I can't let today destroy My portion of pride This blue world is full of joy This blue world is full of joy Tell me the tale Of little lost Ishmael Of Jonah and the whale And the terrors of the age And the wing-beat of the turtle dove On the doomed and shining cage The one thing that they say When your heart has gone astray Is that better days come around There's a timeless horizon, one laboured glance Up off the sinking ground Everybody needs a sign From time to weary time That a loving soul knows their mind I'll be a rock to thee You are the sweet grass at my feet You are my golden light I can't let today destroy My love, nor my living This blue world is full of joy Yes, this day is mine to hold In passion and forgiving This blue world is full of joy Yes, this day is mine to hold In passion and forgiving This blue world is full of joy This blue world is full of joy