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  • Verse 1
    And there 
    was a boom
    ing 
    above 
    you 

    That 
    night, 

    black air
    planes flew 
    over 
    the 
    sea 

    And 
    they were 
    lowing 

    and shifting 
    like 

    Beached 
    whales 

    Shelled 
    snails 

    As you strained 
    and 
    you squinted 
    to see 

    The 
    re
    treat 
    of their hairless 

    and 
    blind 
    cavalry 

    Verse 2
    You froze 
    in 
    your sand 
    shoal 

    Prayed 
    for 
    your 
    poor 
    soul 

    Sky 
    was 
    bread 
    roll, 

    soaking 
    in 
    milk- bowl 

    An
    d when 
    the bread 
    broke, 

    fell 
    in bricks 
    of 
    wet 
    smoke 

    My 
    sleeping 
    heart 
    woke, 

    and my wak
    ing heart 
    spoke 

    And 
    there 
    was a silence 
    you took 
    Verse 3

    to mean 
    something 

    Run
    , sing 

    For 
    alive 
    you will 
    evermore 
    be 

    And 
    the plague 
    of the greasy 

    black en
    gines a- 
    skulkin' 

    Has gone 
    east 

    While you're left 
    to ex

    plain 
    them to me 

    Released 
    from their 
    hairless 

    and 
    blind 
    cavalry 

    Verse 4
    With your 
    hands 
    in 
    your pock
    ets, 

    stubbily running 

    To 
    where 
    I'm 
    unfresh, undressed 

    and yawning 

    Well, 
    what 
    is this 
    crazi
    ness? 

    This 
    crazy 
    talking? 

    You 
    caught some 
    small 
    death 

    when 
    you were sleep
    walking 

    Verse 5
    It 
    was a 
    dark 
    dream, 

    darlin', 
    it's 
    over

    The 
    firebreather is 

    beneath 
    the clover 

    Beneath 
    his 
    breathing 
    there is cold 
    clay, 

    forever 

    toothless 
    hound- 
    dog 

    choking 
    on 
    feather 

    But 
    I took my 
    Verse 6
    fish
    ingpole, fearing 

    your fever 

    Down to 
    the 
    swim
    minghole, where there grows 

    bitter 
    herb 

    That bloom
    s but one 
    day a year 
    by the 
    riverside, 

    I'd bring it 
    here 

    Apply it 
    gently 

    To 
    the love 
    you've lent 
    me 

    While 
    the river 
    was twisting 
    and braid
    Verse 7

    ing, the 
    bait bobbed 

    An
    d the string 
    sobbed, 

    as it 
    cut through the 
    hustling 
    breeze 

    And 
    I watched how 
    the water 

    was kneading 
    so 
    neatly 

    Gone 
    treacly 

    Nearly 
    slowed 
    to 
    stop 
    in this heat 

    In 
    a fren
    zy 
    coiling 
    flush 
    along the 

    muscles 
    beneath 

    Verse 8
    Press 
    on 
    me, 
    we 
    are 
    restless 
    things 

    Webs 
    of 
    seaweed 
    are 
    swaddling 

    And 
    you 
    call 
    upon 
    the dusk 

    Of the musk 
    of 
    squid 

    Shot 
    full 
    of ink, 

    until you 
    sink 
    into 
    your crib 

    Rowing 
    Verse 9
    along, 
    among 
    the 
    reeds, 

    among the 
    rushes 

    heard 
    your 
    song, 

    before 
    my 
    heart 
    had time 
    to 
    hush it 

    Smell 
    of 
    a stone 
    fruit 
    being 

    cut 
    and being 
    opened 

    Smell 
    of 
    low 
    and of a 
    lazy 

    cinder 
    smoking 

    Verse 10
    And when 
    the 
    fire 
    moves 
    away 

    Fire 
    moves 
    away, 
    son 

    Why 
    would 
    you say 

    was 
    the 
    last 
    one? 

    Verse 11

    Scrape 
    your knee, 
    it is 
    only 
    skin 

    Makes 
    the sound 
    of 
    violins 

    And when 
    I cut 
    your 
    hair, 

    and leave the 
    birds 
    all of 
    the trim
    mings 

    I am 
    the happiest 
    woman 

    among 
    all 
    women 

    Verse 12
    And the 
    shal
    low 
    water 

    Stretches 
    as 
    far 
    as 
    can 
    see 

    Knee- 
    deep
    trudging 
    along 

    The 
    seagull 
    weeps 
    "so 
    long" 

    Verse 13
    Humming 
    a threshing 
    song 

    Until 
    the night is 
    over 

    Hold 
    on, 
    hold 
    on 

    Hold 
    your 
    horses 
    back 

    from the 
    fickle 
    dawn 

    I have 
    got some 
    business 
    Verse 14

    out 
    at the 
    edge of 
    town 

    Candy 
    weighing 
    both 
    of my 
    pockets 
    down 

    'Til 
    I can 
    hardly 
    stay 
    afloat, 

    from 
    the weight 
    of them 

    An
    d knowing 
    how 
    the 
    common- 

    folk condem

    What 
    it is 
    I do, 
    to 
    you, 
    to 
    keep you 
    warm 

    Being 
    woman, 
    being 
    woman 

    But 
    always 
    up the 
    mountainside 
    Verse 15

    you're 
    clambering 

    Groping 
    blindly, 
    hungry 
    for 
    anything 

    Picking 
    through your 
    pocket 
    linings, 

    well, 
    what is 
    this? 

    Scrap 
    of sas
    sa
    fras, 
    eh Sisyphus? 

    see the blossoms 
    broke 
    and wet 
    after the rain 

    Verse 16

    Little 
    sister, 

    he will 
    be back again 

    I have washed 
    a thousand 

    spiders 
    down the drain 

    Spiders 
    ghosts 
    hang soaked 

    and 
    dan
    gelin' 

    Silently 
    from all the 
    blooming 

    cherry trees 

    In tiny 
    nooses, 
    safe 
    from everyone 

    Nothing but 
    a nuisance 
    gone now, 

    dead and done 

    Be 
    a woman, 
    be 
    a woman 

    Though 
    Verse 17
    we felt 
    the spray 

    of the waves 

    We decided 
    to stay 
    till 
    the tide 

    rose 
    too 
    far 

    We weren't 
    afraid, 

    'cause we 
    know what 
    you are 

    And you 
    know that 
    we 
    know 

    what 
    you 
    are 

    Verse 18
    Awful 
    atoll 

    Oh, in
    calculable 

    indiscreetness and 
    sorrow 

    Bawl, 
    bellow 

    Sibyl 
    sea- cow, 
    all 
    done up in 
    a bow 

    Toddle 
    Verse 19
    and roll 

    Teeth an 
    im
    palpable 
    bit of leather 

    While 
    yarrow, 

    heather 
    and 
    hollyhock

    Awkwardly 
    molt 
    along 
    the 
    shore 

    Verse 20
    Are 
    you 
    mine? 

    My 
    heart? 

    Mine 
    anymore? 

    Stay 
    Verse 21
    with 
    me 
    for 
    awhile 

    That's 
    an awfully 
    real 
    gun

    I know 
    life 
    will lay 
    you down 

    As the 
    lightning 
    has 
    lately 
    done 

    Failing 
    this, 
    Verse 22
    fail
    ing 
    this 

    Fol
    low 
    me, 
    my 
    sweetest 
    friend 

    To 
    see 
    what you anointed 

    in pointing 
    your gun 
    there 

    Lay 
    it down, 
    nice and slow 
    There is 
    Verse 23

    nowhere 
    to 
    go, 
    save 
    up 

    Up 
    where the light, undiluted, 

    is weaving 
    in a drunk 
    dream 

    At the 
    sight of 
    my baby, 
    out back 

    Back on 
    the patio 
    watching 

    the bats 
    bring 
    night 
    in 

    While, elsewhere, 

    estuar
    ies of 
    wax- 
    white 

    Wend, 
    endlessly, 

    towards 
    sea
    shores 
    unmapped 

    Last week 
    our picture 
    window 
    Verse 24

    produced 
    a half- 
    word 

    Heavy and 
    hol
    low, 

    hit 
    by a brown 
    bird 

    We stood 
    and 
    watched 
    her 

    gape 
    like a 
    rattlesnake 

    And 
    paint 
    an
    d labour 
    over 
    every 
    in
    take 

    said a 
    sort 
    of pray
    Verse 25
    er for 

    some 
    sort of 
    rare 
    grace 

    Then 
    thought 
    ought 
    to 
    take 

    her to 
    a higher 
    place 

    Said 
    "dog 
    nor vulture 
    nor cat 

    shall 
    toy 
    with 
    you 

    And 
    though you 
    die, 
    bird, 

    you 
    will have 
    fine view" 

    Then 
    in my hot 
    Verse 26
    hand 

    She 
    slumped 
    her sick 
    weight 

    We tramped 
    through 
    the 

    poison 
    oak 

    Heartbroke and 
    inchoate 

    Verse 27
    The 
    dogs were 
    snap
    ping 

    And 
    you 
    cuffed their 
    col
    lars 

    While I 
    climbed the 
    tree- house 

    Then how 
    hollered 

    Well, she'd 
    lain, as 
    still as a stone, 

    in 
    my palm, 
    for a lifetime 
    or 
    two 

    Verse 28
    Then, saw 
    the 
    treetops, 

    cocked 
    her head and up 
    and 
    flew 

    While, 
    back 
    in 
    the world 

    that moves, often 

    According 
    to the hoarding 
    of 
    these clues 

    Dogs 
    still 
    run roughly 
    around 

    Little 
    tufts of 
    finch- 
    down 

    And the cities 
    Verse 29
    we passed were 

    a flicker
    ing wasteland 

    But 
    his 
    hand 
    in 
    my hand 
    made them 

    hale 
    and harmless 

    While 
    down in 
    the lowlands 

    the crops 
    are all 
    coming 

    We 
    have everything 

    Life is 
    thundering 
    bliss
    ful towards 
    death 

    In a 
    stam
    pede 
    of his fumbling 

    green 
    gentleness 

    You 
    stopped 
    by, 
    was 
    Verse 30
    all 
    alive 

    In my 
    door
    way, 

    we 
    shucked 
    and 
    jived 

    And when you 
    wept, 
    I was 
    gone 

    See, 
    got 
    gone 
    when I got 
    wise 

    But 
    I can't 
    with 
    cer
    tainty 

    say 
    we sur
    vived 

    Then 
    down, and 
    Verse 31
    down 

    And down, 
    and 
    down 

    And 
    down, and deep
    er 

    Stoke without 
    sound 

    The blameless 
    flames 

    You endless 
    sleeper 

    Through fire 
    be
    low, 
    and fire 
    Verse 32
    above, 

    and 
    fire within 

    Sleeped 
    through the 
    things 
    that couldn't 

    have 
    been 
    if you hadn't 
    have been 

    Verse 33
    And 
    when 
    the fire 
    moves 
    away 

    Fire 
    moves 
    away, 
    son 

    And 
    why 
    would 
    you 
    say 

    was 
    the 
    last 
    one? 

    Verse 34
    All 
    my 
    bones 
    they are 
    gone, 
    gone, 
    gone 

    Take 
    my 
    bones, 
    don't 
    need 
    none 

    Cold, 
    cold 
    cup
    board, 
    lord, 

    nothing 
    to chew 
    on 

    Suck 
    all 
    day 
    on 
    a cherry 
    stone

    Verse 35
    Dig 
    a little hole, 

    not 
    three 
    inches 
    round 

    Spit 
    your 
    pit 
    in a hole 
    in 

    the ground 

    Weep 
    upon 
    the spot 
    for the 

    starving 
    of me 

    'Till 
    up 
    grow 
    fine young 

    cherry 
    tree 

    Verse 36
    Well when 
    the bough 
    break

    s, what'll 
    you 
    make 
    for 
    me? 

    little 
    willow 
    cabin 
    to 
    rest 

    on 
    your 
    knee 

    What'll I 
    do 
    with 
    trinket 
    such 
    as 
    this? 

    Think 
    of 
    your 
    woman, 

    who's gone 
    to 
    the west

    Verse 37
    But 
    I'm starving 
    and freezing 

    in my 
    measly 
    old 
    bed 

    Then 
    I'll crawl 
    across 
    the 
    salt 
    flats 

    to 
    stroke your 
    sweet 
    head 

    Come 
    across 
    the deser

    with 
    no 
    shoes 
    on 

    love 
    you 
    truly, 

    or 
    I love 
    no one 

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    Verse 38
    Fire 
    moves 
    away 

    Fire 
    moves 
    away, 
    son 

    Why 
    would 
    you 
    say 

    That 
    was 
    the last 
    one 

    Last 
    one 

    Clear 
    the room There's 
    a fire, a 
    Verse 39
    fire, a fire 

    Get 
    going, 
    and I'm going 

    to be right 
    be
    hind 
    you 

    And if 
    the love of 
    a woman 
    or 
    two, 

    dear 

    Could
    n't move 
    you to such 
    heights, 

    then 
    all I 
    can do 

    Is 
    do, 
    my 
    darling, 
    right 
    by 
    you 

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