Gather wood against the weather
Pile up stones against the sky
String of lights like pearls between us

And the heavens' blackest eye

Tell the hour

Go take another
Go down Moses
Without a fuss

Taken to the
Lawless water
And send that later boat for us


Chorus:
Sticks and stones

Blood ash and bone
I shake the tree
Swim out alone

Turnin' over the dark Missouri
Now that every new leaf I had
Is gone


Moon's near empty, a swinging saber
Keeping every prayer at bay

At the throat of love for ransom
From the dull approaching day


There's no law
That rides this border
No fences stretch this far

To show
How times will side
Against another

As one arrives and others go

(Chorus)


!@^%s are dressed in fire and feathers
On a beach, sit in a row

Climb the bank through scrub and tinder
Disappear where rabbits go


They had nothing
That I needed
But I gave them

All I had
Just to share
Some dirt between them

As we waited, smoked and laughed

(Chorus)

Now that every new leaf I had is gone x3