Midnight Directives

Cross her off your short list
My blood is a red winged bird
The way will be lit by the bridges we burn, oh
And come, tornado, carry my away from the croft
Ruffle my hair, bear my body aloft, oh

As the cutlass came down on a Saturday night
Left an unplanted field, left my daughter and wife
Called away into service for a clerical life
Left an unplanted field, left my daughter and wife

Thought I was a sad boy
Now I know, I know, I know I was wrong
Since you came alone I can see how content I had been
It'll drive a man crazy to age from the outside in
But I have a plan, it's a trick with the prick of a pin

As the cutlass came down on a Saturday night
Left an unplanted field, left my daughter and wife
Called away into service for a clerical life
Left an unplanted field, left my daughter and wife

For a man can be bought and a man can be sold
And the price of a hundred thousand unwatered souls
Is a bit of meat and a bit of coal
It's a bit of meat and a bit of coal
It's a little bit of meat and coal