lacy schutz
what's a sweetheart
       


Until Your Lips Bleed

   
    How many artificial
      banks before
  we reach the
    port What reward
    for forgiveness If
      the water doesn’t get
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        plays instruments
      made from the
        carcasses of dead
      animals How fair
        thou art We’ll have
      that last waltz I’ll
        be back in
      our ruined city
        Mine own orchard
      have I not kept
        In that small
      town to which we’ll
        never return I’ll
      dance no more ‘til
        I’ve had a
      drink In the base
        ment of the Lodge But
      you won’t find
        me in the orchard come
      summer On a cold
        dark night Oh Danny
      boy Amazing
        grace Diddy
      wah diddy We were
        young when we left
      home The tattered
        streamers hung dusty
      and limp The flaking
        tile Gonna lay
      down my burden
        Your rod and your
      staff so hard and
        strong Come all ye
      young men and lay me
        down We were young when
      we left home I walked
        all night I was young
      when I left home Ribs
        spines stomachs
      bladders How long the
        night I’ll meet you
      there The night
        time is the night
      time I don’t know what
        killed those deer
       
       
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