So so long ago
And so far away
When time was just a line that you fed me
When you wanted to stay
We'd talk as soft as chalk
Till morning came as pale as a pearl:
No time
No time
Now I have got all the time in the world
Say honey did you belong to me
Tell me honey
Was your heart at rest when darling
All the mourning doves were howling us
A song of love's
Godawful lawlessness lawlessness
Say honey did you belong to me
Tell me honey did I pass your test
I lay as still as death until the dawn
Whereupon I wrested from
Your godawful lawlessness lawlessness
I roam around the tidy grounds
Of my dappled sanatorium
Coatless I sit amongst the moles adrift
And I dote upon my pinesap gum
And the light through the pines
In brassy tines
Lays over me dim as rum
And thick as molasses
And so time passes
And so my heart tomorrow comes
I feel you leaning
Out back with the crickets
Loyal heart marking the soon-ness darkness:
Tonight still the mourning doves
Will summon us their song
Of love's neverdoneing lawlessness lawlessness
Roll over and over
Rear up stand down lay round
Trying to sound-out
Or guess the reasons
I sleep like a soldier without rest
But there is no treason
Where there is only lawlessness lawlessness
In the last week
Of the last year I was aware
I took a blind shot across the creek
At the black bear
When he roused me in the night
And left me cowering with my light
Calling out
Who is there Who's there
Who is there
I watched you sleep
Repeating my prayer
Give love a little shove and it becomes terror
Now I am calling
In a sadness beyond anger
And beyond fear
Who is there Who's there
Who is there
I glare and nod
Like the character God
Bearing down upon the houses and lawns
I knew a little bit but darling you were it
And darling now it is long gone
Sweetheart in your clean bright start
Back there behind a hill and a dell
And a state line or two
I'll be thinking of you
Yes I'll be thinking and be wishing you well
We land I stand
But I wait for the sound of the bell
I have to catch a cab
And my bags are at the carousel
And then lord just then time alone will only tell
