The Moon And The Morning Star

Who would have thought
That evening would be first
To ride love's back and say
I got here first
Before the dawn
And long before the day

So love could float
Her rosy little boat
And the moon and the morning star
Could be such good friends

My love and I
We need your love
Like children craving laughter

So love could float
Her rosy little boat
And the moon and the morning star
Could be such good friends

And sorrow's child
Looked up and smiled
And the moon and the morning star
Made such good friends

I'll ask the evening
Where our hearts have gone
Do they sleep like sad old men?
Or do they hide like stars in the day?
Do they wait like trees for rain

So love could float
Her rosy little boat
And the moon and the morning star
Could make such good friends

My love and I
We need your love
Like children craving laughter

So love could float
Her rosy little boat
And the moon and the morning star
Could make such good friends

And sorrow's child
Looked up and smiled
And the moon and the morning star
Made such good friends

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When I Get Home

Playing in the bricks and the foundry dust
I lost track of time
I'm gonna get it when I get home
He's gonna kill me when I get home

That love should turn to bitterness
All so naturally
Poison from my pretty song
Turned to ruin me

I'm gonna get when I get home
He's gonna kill me when I get home

I know you must have held me once
I saw a photograph
Safe and happy in your arms
A smiling god of wrath

I'm gonna get it when I get home
He's gonna kill me when I get home

One sunny judgment day
I lost track of time
Playing in the bricks and the foundry dust
I lost track of time

I'm gonna get it when I get home
He's gonna kill me when I get home

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Like Morning All Day Long

You made the day so broad
To hide an age behind me
Like a star
Hide me in your day
Like a star
Hide me in your day

And though it bring my ending
Let wisdom sing love's song
With a heart that breaks like morning
That breaks like morning all day long

And though it bring my ending
I still want to sing that song
With a heart that breaks like morning
That breaks like morning all day long

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Half A Chance

From withered grass
And broken branches
You made my heart a robin's nest
How many mornings would I wait
If there were even half a chance
That one might find you in my arms
I'd smile a sky from East to West
I'd smile a sky from East to West

Should I have wondered
Who would warm me
When winter comes and robins fly
How many winters would I wait
If there were even half a chance
That April find you in my arms
I'd smile a sky from East to West
I'd smile a sky from East to West

How many seas I'd set to rolling
If one might find you by my shore
To cool you with my weakest wave
If there were even half a chance
That you might find some comfort there
I'd smile a sky from East to West
I'd smile a sky from East to West

If running free were mine to give you
How many meadows would you run
How many treetops in the wind
Would rustle every leaf with hope
If I could hear you laughing there
I'd smile a sky from East to West
I'd smile a sky from East to West

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April Day

Look at me
I'm an April day
Kiss me
I'm a month of them
Hold me
I'm a year of May
Look at me

Twenty fingers weave my clothes
Knit from kisses first and fresh
Look at me I've got twenty toes
Look at me I'm an April day

I know what let's do!
I shall be the moon
And you can be the man on me
Sweeping up such tides of love
That rivers backwards rush
And seas will swirl
From wishing they were us

Perched upon a prickly branch
Look at me I'm a wee fat wren
Ecoute moi! I'll sing in French
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Look at me
I'm pretty again
Look at me I'm an April day

Take me where first kisses go
Let me lie wherever they fall
Like apple blossoms mocking snow
I shall mock the spring and say
Look at me
I'm pretty again
Look at me I'm an April day

I know what let's do!
I shall be the moon
And you can be the morning sun
Come to see what so much love has done

Cover me with a cloudless sky
Look at me I'm a waning ruin
A kiss
To kiss the night good-bye
Look at me
Look at me
Look at me
I'm an April day

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So Bad

Jesus got my Mom in there
And beat her up so bad
He beat her up so bad
Who can save us now that God's gone mad?
Jesus got my Mom in there
And beat her up so bad
He beat her up so bad

Who can save me from the witch
That lives across the way?
She lives across the way
No one will believe a word I say
Jesus got my Mom in there
And beat her up so bad
He beat her up so bad

Who can save me from the man
That wheels the grinding stone?
He wheels the grinding stone
Watching as the witches burn my bones
Jesus got my Mom in there
And beat her up so bad
He beat her up so bad

From my brow she brushed my hair
Like grass from tiny grave
Like grass from tiny grave
How I thought that fretful hand could save!
Jesus got my Mom in there
And beat her up so bad
He beat her up so bad

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Look What The Wind Blew In

When they see me coming all my friends will say
Look what the wind blew in, hey
Look what the wind blew in

And I won't show up empty handed, no
I've got a tight little fist of gold
I've got a tight little gist of gold

Where I leave off and you begin
I don't want to know
No, I don't want to know
Darling, I don't want to know

Like the breath to a heart all-welcoming
To a heart all welcoming I'll go
And when they see me coming
All my friends will say
Look what the wind blew in, hey
Look what the wind blew in

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My Heart's Come Home

My heart's come home to me
That robin from a world away
Has come like first warm rain
My heart's come home to me

To mingle like a robin's song with night
And make night seem as good as day
My heart's come home to me
That robin from a world away
Has come like first warm rain
My hearts come home to me

To make men seem as good as gods
That God himself look down and say
My heart's come home to me
That robin from a world away
Has come like first warm rain
My heart's come home to me

Oh yes, I remember now
Those ancient lovers I and Thou
Have come like first warm rain
My heart's come home
My heart's come home
My heart's come home to me

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Small Wonder

Who can befriend that morning star
That morning star
Didn't he come to mock the dead?
Small wonder my heart fled so far
Who can befriend that morning star?

Who can forgive a God that dies
A God that dies?
Vanishing into bitter day
Small wonder my heart fled so far
Who can befriend that morning star?

Didn't they run like racing boys
Like racing boys?
While I stumble over me
Small wonder my heart fled so far
Who can befriend that morning star?

I hid my aces in a widow's lap
In a widow's lap
And tried to win them back again
Small wonder my heart fled so far
Who can befriend that morning star?

Only the living love that star
That morning star
How can they live who love the dead?
Small wonder my heart fled so far
Who can befriend that morning star?

Morning star
Look down on me
Look down on me
And take me where my love has gone
Small wonder my heart fled so far
Who can befriend that morning star?

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My Love Has Made A Fool Of Me

My love has made a fool of me
Unwise enough to know
That roses on a thistle grow
And I shall climb for kisses every day
In such a shameless rush
That every other rose will blush and say
Ah love
What foolery
My love has made a fool of me

My love has mad a moon of me
A rising smile of light
So sickle sharp and starry bright
That I shall climb for kisses every day
In such a shameless rush
That every cloud above will blush and say
Ah love
What lunacy
My love has made a moon me

My love has made a song of me
To know by heart and sing
And ride on his remembering
That I shall climb for kisses every day
In such a shameless rush
That when he sings my love will blush and say
Ah love
How comforting
My love has made a song of me

My love has made a stone of me
That wants to be a star
What faith could take a stone so far
And pierce the clouds that mock my day
With nature's one straight line
That shaft of light that loves to shine
Your love
How comforting
That love
That foolish little moon
That starry little stone
The comfort of my heart
Come home

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