SIX AND SIX
(CORWOOD 0740)
Feathered Drums
Thanks for all the thoughts
Came rolling in on feathered drums
I’ve been in jail before
Been let out too
Oh I am sure of where I am
Clouds came floating by
Have to hide something away
It’s what I’ve done
Print you this what counts I feel
Oh universe oh beyond everything to never end
Oh back oh reel and tumble
Morning sides and streets of wheat
Oh fanciful and teeming ways
Oh universe and all the days
Point Judith
Crestfallen and broken breast
I feel a full shadow
I see a spur digging
Snails on the rocks and it’s low tide and
There’s diamonds in the ocean
But if there’s a moth winging out over the waves
In the sunlight then
Two spiders meet on a rock but
They’re the same anyhow so
It’s all so still here I
Little waves spill over little rocks
You can peel off mica from the rocks
As it shines like smooth silver
But you know there’s more than this
’Cause you can see the boats sailing
And the gulls fly by fishing
And there’s a lighthouse in the distance but
It’s all so quiet that
Why disturb the silence so
Go wade in the moonlight and
Bring back a starfish
Settle back easy and
Make up your mind to stay
I’ve earned a fortune and
There’s not much more to say
I’m livin’ easy
Smooth as silk these days
I see that you’re fearful
Haven’t changed your ways
Settle back easy and
Make up your mind to stay
The country’s cleaner and
I’ve earned a fortune and
You don’t have to pay
Just settle back easy and
Make up your mind to stay
I Knew You Would Leave
The rocks crumble
Unto dust they die
Once hard stuff of mountains
Now soft powder among the sand
Who dares crush a rock
Oh rock no rock
Reduced to the winds
Scatter your parts
You are not one but many
To those shall you succumb
Beast of time you hurl your heavens sporadic
Falling in the great parade
March unto your death
And into what arms will you go
Surely not your own
Oh God of Gods be you my hope
And all else ruffles in the winds
Magic carpets
Fly to your planets
You have no place on earth
Who is it creates sad soliloquy
Is it everyone
Nay you are a heathen
Erupting words of pretense
Lord let my hand be guided
Sometimes I know it not
As the air no air is still
And the weary sounds refrain
Now the hyena cackles
His clutch has found my heart bleeding
And now you are gone
Were you here at all
Do I awake from a long sleep
Myself on my hands
Tomorrow in the gallows
Trees in the sky
Empty alliterations replenished
By the hand of one who would fall down
And beg a light to shine somewhere
What is this
The cavalcade of misery
What depths
How could we think of distances
Ah it is the gift of man
To live the days long
The nights longer
Journey to the stars
They worship the sun
Come down treasure
That I might perceive a smile
On your lips as we meet
On a journey to the stars
Can I See Your Clock
Can I See Your Clock
Now this one from this morning came to me
A piper in his high cloud sang to me
Listen all my brothers it’s time to rise
Thunder in the heavens of the sky
Free free what I do is me me
What you do is you what you do is you
Clever hah hah I had to laugh
It’s playin’ on a phonograph
Now listen gently to the call
Riding on the waves that fall
And rise to reach the sun and you
You’re living in a moon so blue
Wild Strawberries
Beachcombers in dozens
Arranging the walls
Sun salt and sea
Walkin’ down the halls
I’m wondering where’s
A murdering town
I’ve beaten a hundred
From way down below
Last place you could call me
Out in Ohio
You’re down in the numbers
You’re listed forty-five
You heard and you answered
I’m not dead I’m alive
You walk on a tightrope
Wear the suit of a clown
You rear back in anger
Don’t forget there’s no answer
Watch your feet and where they’re goin’
Don’t forget you’re a dancer
Forgive Me
You know evil know it well
The tree gave up its fruit at once
Ah! My hand it burns
Scarred with these prints
They will leave when I die it is a fact
The blood will drain
Infection will mix with a blue corpse
But you have it here
You see how it is like the wind
At your back and at your face
Leaves drop or aching branches creak
You walk alone down boulevards
That take you to the sky
Take you to the sky
Take you to the sky
Take you to the sky
Hilltop Serenade Part 2
Well your brain is weary and your manner rough
Well OK but that’s enough
Crazy lights crazy fights
Cotton’s on the way hey
Walk along sing a song and pray
Mr. Janry on the label
Paint a picture of a fable
On the label a fable Mr. Janry
Well your brain is weary and your manner rough
Well OK but that’s enough
Crazy lights crazy fights
Cotton’s on the way hey
Walk along sing a song and pray
Mr. Janry on the label
Paint a picture of a fable
On the label a fable Mr. Janry
You’re The Best One
You’re the best one that I came to see
You’re the last one that I want to see
You’re one in a million Lord I think I forgot to count
You’re the top of the mountain
The rest is on the way down
You know I think I have to tell you
I think you ought to know
There was some I knew before you
With you I learned to know them all
And all that came before them
And all that go here from now
You go with them gently
With love on your mind
Delinquent Words
I’ve always had a bloody lip always
Those Cadillacs just float over the roads
They don’t even know the road is is there
How is it they know me well in the wine store
There is no question of it
It’s the blank eyed and fox faced that don’t understand
Age makes no difference
Shape makes no difference
I observe that all collects dust here as everywhere
The most whited things fade and merge to no color
Dust enters into all being
And man who came from dust
To dust shall he return
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