Earthly moments

The trees are frosty

And the water starts

To kill me softly

In my warm, warm heart

And I need nothing

But the day to start

For I’m delaying

This chilling part

The crime is open

And my legs disappear

Someone has drawn

A chalk outline of when we were here

My heart is missing

And the wind whistles clear

Through the hole blown

By the bullet of your tear

Now I used to have you

But we screwed that up dear

The cows are lowing in the fields and the deer

Are always going where the dew is clear

In the mountains where the wild rivers steer

I used to know you

Like an itchy ear

I used to scratch you

Just show you my fear

Of ever losing what I used to hear

The beat of my chicken heart

I used to thatch the cottages around here

Be on the roofs with my straw brain

Leave me lightly, just leave me the rain

I’ll listen slightly in my door-way again

The token of yesterday is the key to today

We use it wisely to unlock the pain

I wanted nothing more from you than to say

That you love me again and again

I used to need you to pull me apart

You used to feed my cold, cold heart

I used to starve you just to let the process start

Of trying to drown you in the apple cart

I used to run through the market place

With everyone knowing me by my face

Now I’m in the stocks at midnight

I’m the great disgrace

Trying to call you out from your hiding place

Well you can hurl at me all your insults

You even as a churl tell me to revolt

Against the feudal lords who run this place

For we’re just peasants working by his grace

The crops are growing and I feel alive

The seeds are sowing and I know we’ll survive

It just been showing since the weather took a dive

A little water fell like manna from the skies