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lyrics

—-

It’s easier lifting a stone then to speak out your name

Heaviness, tenderness washed down the drain

A black bear carried off with yesterday’s sun

Only one care left to us in the world

Time is turned up by the plow and the rose was the earth

She pours me a cup of boiled coffee that tastes like a drum

———



And when I looked up to the sky it had gone blue to back

And I had aged a hundred miles or more from the crack

Care that is golden shedding the burden of time



I drink this dark water like mutinous air

Painting my face with a generous stare

From place to place in the secret night

———

Oh lord I’ve been here before

Too tired to read the bold notes on the door

Amen, I’ll say it again, no turning back when

Your playing to win

And praying for rain

———-

Wasps and the honey bees suck at the land

Man dies as the heat drains from the sand

Honeycomb nets and honeymoon plans

Will arrive

On wings of a dove or some flight-el-ess bird

It seems probable cuz no nothings absurd

Tabletop worries

Indefatigable child

——-

Last night some kind of alarm on the street

It woke up the dead and shattered my sleep

Like a sledge and a hammer it pounded my dreams

into bed, back into bed

A woman appeared with no face at all

Perfectly still fantastically tall

She took off her wig and greeted us all

With a jig, a dance and a song

—

The center it holds and the world will not fall

The world cannot last and the center can’t hold

A liquified death on tv

Will summon the base

Tiny white cage of hysterical friends

Explain the election that will never end

Granite and lightening and melody trends

And a trace

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from Memorial Day : Fifty Demolitions, released May 26, 2021

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