A song from the Innocence Mission's 1998 release, Birds of My Neighborhood:
As for her songwriting process, Karen says, "Often for me a melody and chords will spill out together. The lyrics will take longer to finish - sometimes I'll work on them for weeks over even a month. "The Lakes Of Canada' was written after driving through Canada on a tour with EmmyLou Harris. I wonder a lot about the towns we're passing through, the shady side streets; who lives there and what their lives are like. The song is about moments of sudden joy and how they glimmer the way fish do when you see them in a lake" (from Acoustic Guitar, Birds of a Feather).