Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?

Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?

You laughed as I covered you over with leaves

Face, breast, hips, and thighs

You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes



Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine

Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine

Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see

I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me



Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky

Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie

Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air

Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there



Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they

As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away

The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below

Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go



There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned

Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned

There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why

The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die



The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown

Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown

Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed

I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head...



I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams

To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas

I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land

And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands



I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears

I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here

My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain

Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.



All this day long I linger here and on in through the night

My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight:

My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain

Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again




» A Shot In The Arm
» Against The Law
» Airline To Heaven
» All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose
» Alone
» Any Major Dude Will Tell You
» Ashes Of American Flags
» At Least That's What You Said
» At My Window Sad And Lonely
» Birds and Ships
» Black Wind Blowing
» Blasting Fonda
» Blood Of The Lamb
» Blue Eyed Soul
» Box Full Of Letters
» California Stars
» Can't Stand It
» Candyfloss
» Casino Queen
» Christ For President
» Company in My Back
» Dash 7
» Don't You Honey Me
» Dreamer In My Dreams
» Eisler On The Go
» Elt
» Far Far Away
» Feed Of Man
» Forget The Flowers
» Handshake Drugs
» Heavy Metal Drummer
» Heavy Metal Drummers
» Hell Is Chrome
» Hesitating Beauty
» Hoodoo Voodoo
» Hot Rod Hotel
» Hotel Arizona
» How To Fight Loneliness
» How To Fight Lonliness
» Hummingbird
» I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
» I Can't Stand It
» I Got You
» I Got You At The End Of The Century
» I Guess I Planted
» I Must Be High
» I Thought I Held You
» I Was Born
» I'm a Wheel
» I'm Trying to Break Your Heart
» I'm Always In Love
» I'm The Man Who Loves You
» In A Future Age
» in Your Dreams
» Ingrid Bergman
» It's Just That Simple
» Jesus Ect
» Jesus, Etc.
» Kamera
» Kingpin
» Late Greats
» Less Than You Think
» Magazine Called Sunset
» Meanest Man
» Misunderstood
» Monday
» Muzzle of Bees
» My Darling
» My Flying Saucer
» Not For The Season
» Nothing Up My Sleeve
» Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(again)
» Nothing's Ever Gonna Stand In My Way Again
» Nothings Ever Gonna Stand In My Way Again
» NothingsevergonnastandinmywayAgain
» One By One
» Outta Mind Outta Sight
» Outtasite (Outta Mind)
» Outtasite Outtamind
» Passenger Side
» Pecan Pie
» Pick Up The Change
» Pieholden Suite
» Poor Places
» Pot Kettle Black
» Radio Cure
» Red Eyed And Blue
» Red-Eyed And Blue
» Remember The Mountain Bed
» Reservations
» Rhythm
» Say You Miss Me
» Secrets Of The Sea
» She Came Along To Me
» She's A Jar
» Should've Been In Love
» Shouldn't Be Ashamed
» Someday Some Morning Sometime
» Someday Soon
» Someone Else's Song
» Spiders (Kidsmoke)
» Stetson Kennedy
» Summer Teeth
» Sunken Treasure
» That's Not The Issue
» The Late Greats
» The Lonely 1
» The Lonely One
» The Unwelcome Guest
» Theologians
» Too Far Apart
» Venus Stop The Train
» Via Chicago
» Walk Where He Walked
» War On War
» Was I In Your Dreams
» Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
» We're Just Friends
» What's The World Got In Store
» When You Wake Up Feeling Old
» Why Would You Wanna Live
» Wishful Thinking

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