You And Me, Bess
(专辑: Have One On Me - 2010)
We picked our way down to the
beach Watching the
waves dragging out of our reach Tangling tails, like a
sodden sheet Dangling entrails from the
gut of the
sea Hoarding our meals, alfalfa and rolls Trying not to catch the
cold eye of the
gulls I
hope Mother Nature has not overheard Though she doles out hurt like a
puking bird We stayed for the
winter No-one told us about the
laws of the
land I
hold my own, but you with your hunger You, on the
other hand make yourself known And when we were found I
know we both grieved My heart made the
sound of snow falling from eaves You and me, Bess, we was as thick as thieves So I
swore, nonetheless, up and down, it was only me So they took me away and after some time Studying my case must have made up their minds By the
time you realized I
was dying Must have been too late, I
believe you were not lying It is the
day, I
wake with my ears cocked up like a
gun Like every day, of course Yanked by my wrists to the
sugar-front courtyard Now tell me, what have I
done? Seems I
have stolen a
horse and I
step to the
gallows Who do you think that you are? Arching your hooves like a
crane In the
shallow gutter that lines the
boulevards Crowded with folks who just Stare as I
hang, it's all the
same Kindness comes over me, what was your name? It makes no difference, I'm glad that you came Forever, I'll listen to your glad neighing