In the wool dyed, damned, indelible
I'd planned to leave it all, turn the leaf,
learn the terms to swerve
and seize the day
In the wool come wind me in ball
come make me from a strand into a string
to something served for covering
the face
When the baby cries again, let the love ignite and swim like swallows circling, scribed across the gray. When the ram and when the ewe, huddles down to dream of dew like tallow, sod, and summer dull the blade.
Oh, in the wool come find me, minotaur, amaze me:
Born a man or born a beast by sorcery or family or just fate?
Just fate….
Of all things, now,
to unravel all the seams I've sewn
Come to think, wow! how the pattern
will reveal each bone, and I said:
"Oh, my aching hands,"
from gathering all the leaves for fire and for heat
They told me
I don't need this coat, so I stole another bead I'd loaned
from starry little me unknown
unborn
In the wool cut clean from animals I'd feed
But then the men, the empty pen, emptied, then, of every friend
And then the bruise the fear of school the solace walking in the woods
Then the face, the added weight,
the feeling fortune smiles upon
the stained
When the baby cries again, let the love ignite and swim like swallows circling, scribed across the gray. When the lamb and when the ewe, huddles down to dream of dew like tallow, sod, and summer dull the blade
And never let a kindness go to waste
I remember this like I was yesterday
credits
from Three,
released December 11, 2020
Nathaniel Bellows: Acoustic guitar; vocals
Malcolm Burn: Bass guitar, Fender Rhodes
Steve Decker: Drums
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