The Crane Wife

You belong to the gang and you say you can't break away But I'm here with my hands on my heart And our families can't agree, I'm your brother's sworn enemy But I shout out my love to the stars So we'll wait for the stone on your window, your window W

There's an island hidden in the sound Lapping currents lay your boat to ground Affix your barb and bayonet The curlews carve their arabesques And sorrow fills the silence all around Come and see There's a harbor lost within the reeds A jetty caught i

Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet A sweetheart left behind Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas That's where my true love lies Look for me when the sun-bright swallow Sings upon the birch bough high But you are in the ground with the

And under the boughs unbowed All clothed in a snowy shroud She had no heart so hardened All under the boughs unbowed Each feather it fell from skin Till threadbare while she grew thin How were my eyes so blinded? Each feather it fell from skin And I

When we arrive Sons & daughters We'll make our homes on the water We'll build our walls aluminum We'll fill our mouths with cinnamon now These currents pull us 'cross the border Steady your boats Arms to shoulder 'till tides will pull our hull agroun

Ramblin' where to begin I taste the summer on your peppery skin Been saved the warmer the waves I felt a slip into a watery grave My girl, linen and curls Lips parting like a flag all unfurled She's grand the bend of her hand Digging deep into the sw