[00:00.927]Sadie, white coat[00:06.831]You carry me home[00:13.074]And bury this bone[00:20.101]And take this pine-cone[00:27.755]Bury this bone to gnaw on it later[00:36.375]Gnawing on the telephone[00:40.607]And 'till then, we pray and suspend[00:47.321]The notion that these lives do never end[00:54.217]And all day long we talk about mercy[01:01.688]Lead me to water, Lord, I sure am thirsty[01:08.532]Down in the ditch where I nearly served you[01:14.932]Up in the clouds where he almost heard you[01:21.515]And all that we built[01:24.545]And all that we breathed[01:27.784]And all that we spilt[01:30.997]Or pulled up like weeds[01:34.237]Is piled up in back[01:37.476]And it burns irrevocably[01:47.559](And we spoke up in turns[01:50.511]'Till the silence crept over me.)[02:00.568]And bless you[02:03.729]And I deeply do[02:06.864]No longer resolute[02:10.991]And I call to you[02:14.596]But the water[02:17.339]Got so cold[02:20.526]And you do lose[02:23.817]What you don't hold[02:27.082]This is an old song, these are old blues[02:34.449]And this is not my tune, but it's mine to use[02:41.998]And the seabirds where the fear once grew[02:48.660]Will flock with a fury[02:51.611]And they will bury what'd come for you[02:55.765]And down where I darn with the milk-eyed mender[03:02.348]You and I, and a love so tender[03:09.244]Stretched on a hoop where I stitch - this adage:[03:15.644]"Bless our house and its heart so savage."[03:21.835]And all that I want[03:25.074]And all that I need[03:28.313]And all that I've got is scattered like seed[03:34.922]And all that I knew is moving away from me[03:48.271](And all that I know is blowing like tumbleweed.)[03:55.690][04:01.881]And the mealy worms[04:05.303]In the brine will burn[04:08.437]In a salty pyre[04:11.154]Among the fauns and ferns[04:15.334]And the love we hold[04:18.390]And the love we spurn[04:21.734]Will never grow cold[04:24.529]Only taciturn[04:28.604]And I'll tell you tomorrow[04:35.500]Sadie, go on home now[04:41.352]And bless those who've sickened below[04:47.412]And bless us who've chosen so[04:54.805]And all that I've got[04:58.227]And all that I need[05:01.623]I tie in a knot and I lay at your feet[05:08.127]And I have not forgot, but a silence crept over me[05:21.580](So dig up your bone[05:25.002]Exhume your pine-cone, my Sadie.)[05:30.253]