A dog-eared mind sniffed my heart | |
Like a pocket full of German marks | |
Long after the war was through | |
Stood me on a rusted rail | |
Turned my face and kicked my tail | |
Up toward the yonder blue … | |
Threw a fish up on the bank | |
And watched him dance from the air he drank | |
And then my hunger knew | |
That sparks will fly around my head | |
When I stir the coals down in my bed | |
Like I was walking back to you | |
Time slips out of the leaning fence | |
That lost the border ever since | |
Our beloved war took to the road | |
With caravans and mocking birds | |
And painted girls with twisted words | |
Whose knees and ankles showed … | |
Now, I sit and watch the failing moon, | |
The shower-stars and, coming soon, | |
The whole thing will look new | |
When blessedly I will forget | |
The ways of God and all regret | |
Like I was walking back to you |
A dogeared mind sniffed my heart | |
Like a pocket full of German marks | |
Long after the war was through | |
Stood me on a rusted rail | |
Turned my face and kicked my tail | |
Up toward the yonder blue | |
Threw a fish up on the bank | |
And watched him dance from the air he drank | |
And then my hunger knew | |
That sparks will fly around my head | |
When I stir the coals down in my bed | |
Like I was walking back to you | |
Time slips out of the leaning fence | |
That lost the border ever since | |
Our beloved war took to the road | |
With caravans and mocking birds | |
And painted girls with twisted words | |
Whose knees and ankles showed | |
Now, I sit and watch the failing moon, | |
The showerstars and, coming soon, | |
The whole thing will look new | |
When blessedly I will forget | |
The ways of God and all regret | |
Like I was walking back to you |
A dogeared mind sniffed my heart | |
Like a pocket full of German marks | |
Long after the war was through | |
Stood me on a rusted rail | |
Turned my face and kicked my tail | |
Up toward the yonder blue | |
Threw a fish up on the bank | |
And watched him dance from the air he drank | |
And then my hunger knew | |
That sparks will fly around my head | |
When I stir the coals down in my bed | |
Like I was walking back to you | |
Time slips out of the leaning fence | |
That lost the border ever since | |
Our beloved war took to the road | |
With caravans and mocking birds | |
And painted girls with twisted words | |
Whose knees and ankles showed | |
Now, I sit and watch the failing moon, | |
The showerstars and, coming soon, | |
The whole thing will look new | |
When blessedly I will forget | |
The ways of God and all regret | |
Like I was walking back to you |