From the recording Careless Laughter
Lyrics
Stress ten more minutes for a miracle
The years have replaced every particle of you my dear
when the plants grew silent we walked past them. just smiled.
was it worth the wait to grow in silence?
worth its weight in every ounce
to grow and laugh once grown
show me the thorn i’ll mimic the thorn
we’ll scratch and claw and kiss ooh la la
we’ve done no better, no worse, is it a bless that we’re cursed?
you run on every detail you sound so well rehearsed
and all this spit in my mouth
can’t conjure up enough for me to whisper
i don’t want to run forever
strike the structure - what remains?
soil so fertile, sow seeds so vein
such serious leaves carry thrashing bulbs:
noxious, soon to fall and decay in autumn rain
we’ll play there and restore the earth -
bubbled, oily, summoned to overcome
how to destroy while creating flooded joy in this life?
dating back to primitive, real bellyaching
over hardknocks just to keep everything rolling on the clocks
foxes will try to steal our chickens