Joe Henry - Sticks & Stones текст песни

Tell the hour: go take another,
Or go down, Moses, without a fuss

Give in to the lawless water
And send a later boat for us
Sticks and stones, blood, ash, and bone,
I shake the tree, swim out alone:
Turning over the dark Missouri
Now that every new leaf I had is gone
The 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 is no lord that rides this boarder,
No fences stretch this far to show
How times will side against another,
As one arrives and others go

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Whores are dressed in fire and feathers
On the beach, sit in a row

Climb the banks through scrub and tender,
Disappear where rabbits go.
They had nothing that I needed
But I gave them all I had,
Just to share the dirt between them
As they waited, smoked and laughed

(Chorus)