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I am not a heel
But I will turn turn turn
I am not a seal
But i’ve been learned learned learned
I am not a lamb
But I will sweet sweet sweet
And curl and sleep
All at your feet
I am not a roof
But I will cave cave cave
I am not a brute
But I will take take take
I am not a child
But I am lost lost lost
And you’ll become my place
To lay the cost
I am not a monster
But I will eat your heart
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Is it ever gonna not
Be so hard to see you around
Am I really really really really gonna have to
Really gonna have to really have to leave town?
I mean I called upon a bunch of angels
Calling, “Angels, ain’t you supposed to come
And take away these blues?
I mean we’ve came upon a bunch of rabies
And there isn’t nothing all us little animals can do
With all five kinds of reins and all nine kinds of thunderings
Or eighteen white horses if won’t none of them come to me!”
Don’t plant no more feet, love, in that garden of blame
Don’t break me no more, love, I’m already tame
Is it ever gonna stop
All this trouble of just being around all my awful friends
Am I really really really really gonna have to
Really gonna have to really have to leave this awful town again
I mean, I laid myself upon the water
Calling, “Water, ain’t you supposed to come
And save us all from all these awful flames?
I mean we’re caught among the awful branches
And you know they’re burning us and yes, they’re learning all of us’s names
I mean I stood your shore all wilted and wondering
Ain’t you got no home for me and ain’t you still sweet for me?”
Don’t plant no more feet, love, in that forest of blame
Don’t break me no more, love, I’m already tame
Aw come aw wry
I can fly through these hallways
Dressed in light though it always
It always gets cold
It always gets cold
I can sing through my fingers
Though the worth of a singer
Is nothing I’m told
It’s what I’ve been told
I am a full grown man
I will lay lay lay
In the grass
In the grass
All day
I can freeze in the place that
Gets me free from this taste that
I have in my heart
I have in my heart
We can curl in the waters
Naked swirling like otters
You know how they are
You know how they are
I am a full grown man
I will lay lay lay
In the grass
In the grass
All day
I am a full grown man
I will be calm calm calm
In the grass
In the grass
In your arms
Around your head, drowned and wet
Is a ring of lights, buzzing lights
Cousin, light is not foreign
No, such is light in me tonight
I at all white and I not white
I at all white and I at not white
But wait I wasn’t born
I wasn’t born to hide
Or to shy from light
I was not born to hide
Hey I got limbs all strong and slim
But there’s nothing here to hold
Yeah I got limbs all made to bend
And, cousin, made to fold
But wait, I wasn’t born
I wasn’t born to hide
Or to shy from light
I wasn’t born just to die
No I was born and I got love
And you were born and I got love
Cousin, don’t you know?
Dead heart, dead heart, dead heart
Aw Come Aw Wry
There’s dogs calling awfully out here
There’s cows with their mouths filled with tears
And there’s black water curling all around where we layed
Yes and I have been sad now for too many days
And she would harness my heart if it harnessed that way
So babe, I am going, I’m going away
The women are all gorgeous down here
They’re long and brown and bashful like deer
And she is always arriving in her dark river skirt
Winding holes through the valleys, bending bones into dirt
Hiding poems I had tossed under blankets of sand
And babe, I am sorry, I’m sorry, I am
It never gets cold way down here
And I can live off of watermelons and beer
And I will never go hungry and I will never go home
And never call to my lover, ‘Lover, leave me alone’
And never harden my heart like some fruit in the snow
But I will walk, babe (I know this) unnoticed, unknown
If I lost my name
I would not feel bad
‘Cause hey, I lost my name
And I don’t feel bad
In the sudden long flames
We could flame all night
If you took my heart
And you broke it right
For your bare hips I would trade
All the air I’ve breathed
And all the words I’ve used
That I don’t believe
Then if we came back down
Do you think it’d be the same
‘Cause hey, I came back down
And it was not the same
So if I lost my name
I would not feel bad
Because I have lost my name
And I do not feel bad
Through my window I knows
About the wind when it blows
About the lights from the road
And their every nightly glow
Yes and o how they’d explode
If she should decide to show
Up among this empty-handedness
Endless
Take my feet to the bar
Where I know you at not are
Take my coins and place them there
Make that sound I love to hear
Cause I have been long against this night
I been a mess my whole life
And I don’t care what happens next
Endless
Still the dawn fills with needs
And my tongue fills with fleas
And your ghost fills my sight
And then the gathering light
Is laying soft around your feet
As you turn to ask of me
Is it long, my love, until we rest?
Endless
How long, my love, until we rest?
Endless
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