1: And this alone

3: And this at night

1: And in the yard

3: He asks himself

1: Where is the grass

5: Where is my home

1: And where are the birds

2: Where is my home

3: They do not flock

5: Where is my mother

1: They do not cry

5: If not in blue

3: Where is my mother

2: If not at home

1: If not a dog

3: If not the sound of

1: The furnace roar

5: Where is my mother

3: The sound of fury

1: The sound of shade

2: Consider if you will

3: And under the car

4: Sound the alarm

1: Sound the distance

2: Come down now

4: Sound the alarm

2: All things

3: The sound

1: Of distance

2: Comin’ down comin’ now down comin’ down

3: The sound of

4: Wind

1: On wind

3: On white

1: On lawns

3: Freshly cut

1: On fields

3: On malice

2: On fog on fields

1: On morning jogs

3: It snags

1: And jogs

3: To jog

5 & 2:    Your name

1: In the mouth

2: Of a stranger

1: A call

1: All things

5: A sign

4: All signs

1: I keep an eye

3: Blue colour

1: I keep my eyes peeled

5: Blue colour

1: I keep hoping

3: Blue colour

1: I keep blue watch

3 & 5:    Blue colour

1: I keep an eye on your soul

5: But not bother

1: I keep an eye on the time

2: But no bother

1: And if this is what is

3: Then don’t bother

1: And if I am asleep

3: Then I’m tired

1: And if I am awake

3: Then I’d rather

1: Be with you

3: Than alone

1: In this yard

5: Clean the gutters

2: You called them

5: The eavestroughs

2: You called in

1: Hello?

5: Some favours

3: And for a while

2: There was quiet

3: For a while

5: The highway was closed

1: Just the wind

3: Collecting its toll

5: Its tax

1: On the soul

4’s melody drops out.

2: The heart

1: Shucks and jives and

3: Doubles in time

2: My heart

3: Doubles in time

5: Three and four

2: Look

3: And double in time

2: Here it is

5: Thanks for the laughs

1: And the scraps of your time

3: Look

(Beat)

1: Look at me

3: Look

2: I’m old

4: Just

3: Look at me

5: I feel fucking old, man

4: Sometimes

5: You know

2: I just

(Pause)

1: That’s the only way I can describe it

2: Tired

3: Of the world

4: Of

2: Being in the world

5: My body

3: What I can do

4: With this body

1: All bodies through which

2: I’ve come

3: Known to myself

1: And

4: All bodies, all faces

5: All shades

2: Coming

1: His

3: Wet

4: Slick

2: Slip

1: His tongue

2: The heat of his

5: Breath on my neck

3: So – hot

1: Kiss and licked

4: Twice, three times

1: My age

2: He had a wife

3: All the lovers

1: I’ve known

2: And younger

4: The bodies through which

5: I’ve known my own

3: Carpenters, lawyers

1: A few actors obviously

4: Yup

3: Gross

5: Sunday drives

2: The moisture of our

5: Bodies in heat

1: Rock rock

3: Rocking

2: Rock hard

5: Fuck

4: That was –

1: Sunday

3: That was

2: Good

1: That was a good life

2: That’s some good news

5: That’s the gospel

3: That’s the gospel truth

1: That’s the thing

4: That’s the couch

2: – if you wanna take a seat

1: Just –

3: Collapse on the couch