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[00:00.00]So, so long ago,
[00:07.69]and so far away,
[00:13.26]when Time was just a line
[00:16.90]hat you fed me,
[00:18.76]when you wanted to stay,
[00:24.18]we'd talk
[00:25.53]as soft as chalk,
[00:28.16]till morning came, as pale as a pearl:
[00:34.59]No time!
[00:35.80]No, no time!
[00:37.99]Now, I have got all the time
[00:40.67]in the world.
[00:44.51]Say, honey, did you belong to me?
[00:48.54]Tell me, honey,
[00:50.29]was your heart at rest when, darlin,
[00:53.86]all the morning doves were howling us
[00:57.96]a song of love's
[01:00.08]godawful lawlessness?
[01:06.10]Say, honey, did you belong to me?
[01:09.80]Tell me, honey, did I pass your test?
[01:14.25]I lay, as still as death, until the dawn,
[01:18.08]whereupon I wrested from
[01:20.67]that godawful lawlessness.
[01:25.40]I roam around the tidy grounds
[01:29.68]of my dappled sanatorium.
[01:35.01]Coatless, I sit
[01:37.15]amongst the moles, adrift,
[01:39.43]and I dote upon my pinesap gum.
[01:44.66]And the light, through the pines,
[01:46.89]in brassy tines,
[01:49.19]lays over me, dim as rum
[01:54.31]and thick as molasses.
[01:56.75]And so time passes.
[01:59.05]And so, my heart, tomorrow comes.
[02:04.33]I feel you, leaning,
[02:06.17]out back with the crickets,
[02:08.12]loyal heart marking the soon-ness,
[02:12.20]darkness:
[02:12.95]tonight, still,
[02:14.29]the mourning doves
[02:15.93]will summon us their song
[02:18.13]of love's neverdoneing lawlessness
[02:24.85]while, over and over--
[02:26.30]rear up! stand down! lay round!--
[02:28.63]trying to sound-out,
[02:31.02]or guess the reasons,
[02:33.36]I sleep like a soldier, without rest.
[02:36.76]But there is no treason,
[02:38.90]where there is only lawlessness.
[03:14.54]In the last week
[03:16.08]of the last year I was aware,
[03:20.50]I took a blind shot, across the creek,
[03:23.35]at the black bear,
[03:26.38]when he roused me in the night,
[03:28.58]and left me cowering with my light,
[03:30.77]calling out
[03:31.67]Who is there?
[03:37.84]Who's there?
[03:40.72]Who is there?
[04:12.79]I watched you sleep,
[04:15.84]repeating my prayer.
[04:19.32](Give love a little shove
[04:21.02]and it becomes terror.)
[04:23.95]Now I am calling,
[04:25.75]in a sadness beyond anger
[04:27.53]and beyond fear,
[04:29.39]Who is there? Who's there?
[04:38.29]Who is there?