Sawdust And
the top of the flight Of the wide, stairs the rest of my life Do you wait for me
a bell in my ears There's a wide white Drop a down the stairs Hear it fall
it fall forevermore
Drop a off of the dock it out in the sea Drowning mute as a And sounding
a light in the wings Hits this system of From the side they swing; See the wires, the wires, the
And the In our and knees Makes us buckle as we couple in increase As the audience
And the little dove Made with love, made with Made with glue, and a glove, and pliers
Swings a low arc its perch in the dark Settle Settle down my
And the moment I I was swept up in a terrible tremor Though no longer bereft, how I shook and I couldn't
Then the furthermost drove a murthering stake in And cleft me right down through my And I shouldn't say so, but I know it was then, or never
Push me back a tree Bind my with salt And fill my long ears bees please, please, please, Love, you not! No you not!
the system of strings tugs on the tip of my wings (cut from and old magazines) Makes me and rise like a sparrow And in the place where I stood, there is a circle of A cord or two, which you chop and you in your barrow
It is terribly to carry water and chop wood with soot, heavy booted and wild-eyed; As I through the rafters And the ropes and pulleys after And the belfry burns sky-high
Then the slow lip of fire across the prairie with precision While, somewhere, with your pliers and glue you your first incision And in a of almost-unbearable vision Doubled over the hunger of lions 'Hold me close', cooed the Who was stuffed, now, with sawdust and
I wanted to say: why the face? Sparrow, perch and songs of long face Burro, buck and songs of long face! Sing: I will swallow your sadness and eat cold clay Just to lift your long
And though it may be madness, I take to the grave Your precious And though our they may break, and our souls separate - why the face? And our bodies recoil from the grip of the soil - why the long
In the trough of the Which are like dogs Pitch we, and grave, As I in my log
Then I a noise from the hull days out to sea And it is the bell!
And it tolls - well, I believe, it tolls - for me! It for me!
And though my wrists and my waist so easy to break Still, my dear, I have walked you to the very edge of the water And they recognise all the lines of your face In the face of the daughter of the daughter of my
and darling, we will be fine, but what was yours and to be a sandcastle that the gibbering wave takes But if it's all just the same, then will you say my Say my name in the morning, so I know the wave breaks?
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a at twilight No, I was all horns and thorns, sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and So: of this terror We deserve to light And grow evermore lighter and You would seen me through But I could not that desire
Oh-oh, desire Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
the top of the flight Of the wide, white the rest of my life Do you wait for me