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Artist: Wilco Album: Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2 Originally released: 2000 |
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 greed's, 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
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 greed's, 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
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Written by: TWEEDY, JEFF / BENNETT, JAY / GUTHRIE, WOODY
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