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I don’t want to take and baby I don’t want to break and baby
I don’t want to try and make you anyway
I just want to lie down
Tell these tired brains to lie down
And then fall away
I won’t be alone I won’t be waiting by the phone
I won’t be dreaming of you dreaming of me anyway
Tell me where you’ve been
And I will tell you where I’ve been
It will be all ok
I don’t have a home it’s not a chain it’s not a throne
It’s just a picture of a picture tossed and torn away
Of that anger on your face
Still not as strange and not as brave
As when you turned away
I won’t be the one when all is said and all is done
I won’t be breathing like you breathe into the light of day
No I’ll be in the yard
Still taking pictures in the dark
Of all our torn up praise
Leave me not alone I won’t be chased I won’t be thrown
I won’t be bleeding for you bleeding for me everyday
You can tell me where you’ve been
And I will tell you where I’ve been
It will be all ok
Dark night; meek and aligned
Stones, tied; domes, light
Be dark night
Doe-tide; field, camera
Ran, delight; stand, alive
Be dark night
All rise; speed and alight
Speed and blind; be not bright
Be dark night
Mama there’s wolves in the house
Mama they won’t let me out
Mama they’re mating at night
Mama they won’t make nice
They’re pacing and glowing bright
Their faces all snowy and white
They bury their paws in the stone
They make for my heart as their home
They tumble and fight and they’re beautiful
On the hilltops at night they are beautiful
And blazing with light is the whitest
And the tallest and the biggest one
She’s muscled and fine
When she runs
They’re tearing up holes in the house
They’re tearing their claws through the grout
They’re staring with blood in their mouths
And Mama they won’t let me out
They tumble and fight and they’re beautiful
On the hilltops at night they are beautiful
And blazing with light is the whitest
And the tallest and the biggest one
She’s muscled and fine
When she runs
Mama there’s wolves in the house
Mama I tried to put them out
And mama I know you’re too wise
To wait til those wolves make nice
O in life
Through many dark rooms
We must go
And all right
Tho many’s the hour
Will come to you sour and slow
And all night
Tho flames in the forest ring halos
To glory us both
All I
Can bring to that chorus of smoke
Is the hope that you knowed:
O love
Tho one day I tarried too far
And I never came home
O love
Always I carried your heart
Married deep in my own
Where are we and where do we
And where will we finally
Trade our teeth for rays of wheat
To lay and sleep underneath
O love too eager to cross
O love we meet and you pause
O love too eager to cross
You see what you’ve lost?
The crazy streets, amazing grief
The taste of sweet offerings
The blazing heat, the naked beasts
Great barrier reefs, all for thee
O love too eager to cross
O love we meet and you pause
O love too eager to cross
Don’t you see what we’ve lost?
The waves at night all brave and bright
The dance hall lights, o all your life
To lay and weep, to trade our teeth
To aim and achieve grace and peace
I remember evenings when my dad would sing
Hiding in the hallway, I am listening
Keeping still my body until it’s borne aloft
Her hair is soft and her breath is soft and her name is soft
She gathers me completely in her sighing hands
My dove, my dove, my lamb
We’re born with ocean thunder underneath our veins
Lonelier than cows left standing in the rain
Holy when our weight into the waves is tossed
Tho ships get lost and fish get lost and names get lost
She will wait to greet me where it meets dry land
My dove, my dove, my lamb
So you be careful of that language, babe some words are stones
They’ll lead you out from town then leave you all alone
Past the mirrored diamond mares that run all night
Where camptown ladies sing that song, ‘Aw Come Aw Wry’
But, lo they sing it sweetly so I’ll understand
My dove, my dove, my lamb
Though my sight be near and though my way be long
Though the light I chase be disappeared by dawn
I have seen her standing on the roofs at night
I have seen her silver figure bathed and bright
And I have seen her sleeping in the cold white sand
My dove, my dove, my lamb
So even in these cities where she’s haunting me
Even when my weariness is wanting me
Even when my wickednesses want to breathe
Even in these dirty clubs counting 1-2-3
I will keep a singing ’til I no more can
My dove, my dove, my lamb
And later, if I’m better I’ll be born again
I’ll pull my newborn body from the thorns and limbs
Finding with my fingers where they’ve torn a page
From some ancient book all gold and worn from age
And writ upon it neatly tho in trembling hand
My dove, my dove, my lamb
Then finally in the evening I hear trumpets ring
I stretch out in the dark and I am listening
I’m studying the sadness in your perfect limbs
I move them under mine until they learn to blend
And I will keep repeating til they understand
My dove, my dove, my lamb
In the darkness
After the cocaine lights
I will miss you
More than ever
And to color my eyes into rose
Is to ask of my beaten bones
To be less of meat and stone
And more of feather
But, lord they’re rolling me away
Ain’t they rolling me away
Don’t they roll oh oh oh
In the morning in the kitchen
I can hear my own blood clicking
So I stand there and I listen
Til the glowing begins
There is light that pours sweet from new hips
There is beer that pours sweet through my lips
There is gold where the cold muscle sits
It’s just a showy amen
And in the hallway, in a slip
She says, ‘Hey don’t you like my newest trick’
And I say, ‘Yeah thats a pretty good trick
Would you show me again’
And, lord, truly I am awake
And, lord, truly I am afraid
And, lord, truly I remain
In the darkness
After the cocaine lights
I will miss you
With no warning
I will recover my sense of grace
And rediscover my rightful place
Yes and cover up my face
With the morning
(Instrumental)