"People Are Lifted" lyrics

Was a dark winter's morning I was up before dawn
Had my gloves and my hat and my jacket all on
I walked out to the field and continued ahead
And that's when I saw her out in front of the shed

She was sitting there silent in a thin sleeping gown
She wouldn't look up and she wouldn't look down
Her face was in shadows I could not see her eyes
And that's when the light came and filled up the skies

At all times of the morning and all times of the day
People are lifted and carried away
I don't know what to do I don't know what to say
People are lifted and carried away

The first time it happened it was Lucy, like that
On a dark winter's morning with my gloves and my hat
In spring, nothing happened then summer came round
I was working construction off of Rhode Island Sound

The frames and the joists the nails into wood
The crew wasn't tight-knit but we got along good
A Portuguese guy who had done this for years
Went up on the roof cried out once, disappeared

I've been able to think on the things that I've seen
I watched as they happened I don't know what they mean
I have tried to make sense through patience and prayer
Of the bodies on earth rising into the air

I can't go back inside 'til I see it once more
I'll never get back to what I was before
So I stand here all day beaten up by the sun
I've seen people taken why can't I be the one?