The Return of Gentle Deer

Verse 1

Antlers wide and carving through the mist

Silver ghost that no one missed

Found him waiting by the creek

Legs were long and spirit weak

He had vanished like a name unsaid

Living where the pines have bled

Pre-Chorus

Mountains cracking at the base

Something quiet took its place

Velvet shifting in the shade

Debt is finally being paid

Chorus

Gentle Deer is coming home

Coming home

Stepping soft across the loam

Cross the loam

The Gentle Deer is coming home

Through the hollow through the foam

Coming home

Verse 2

Dusty hooves upon the gravel path

Far away from winter wrath

Breathing heavy with the mountain air

Shaking water from his hair

Gentle master of the thicket deep

Waking from a heavy sleep

Pre-Chorus

Rivers running reverse now

He knows why and he knows how

Sun is sinking through the gray

Calling back the light of day

Chorus

Gentle Deer is coming home

Coming home

Stepping soft across the loam

Cross the loam

The Gentle Deer is coming home

Through the hollow through the foam

Coming home

Bridge

Softly softly he arrives

Keeper of the thousand lives

Watcher of the silent grove

Tracing every path we wove

He returns

He returns

Chorus

Gentle Deer is coming home

Coming home

Stepping soft across the loam

Cross the loam

The Gentle Deer is coming home

Through the hollow through the foam

Coming home