[Verse] We met by chance on the Roe River side Our songfires danced as our tea leaves dried She hatched our plans in the atmospheric tides Said, Lets give up sacrifice next Lent Well, that jokes long since been spent So as the fool on the bagpipes played We kept cool in the parasol shade Your thumb on my page at my tender age East enders wives And hidden in the fox thorn blind We grew old as the foxtail pine Sheep in the cold shielding our gold Sipping on milk and water like She packed our bags some arbitrary time By the time he wakes up, Ill be gone. Then waved like a flag from the White Star Line Queensland our next stop, hell be gone. Unmoored, unwell, though I seldom elegize You still see who I once was. We both been untrue but Im still counting on you Like an invisible rosary And as the past and all plans are undone Slowly sank like a shipwrecked sun Bridges and ropes, burning them both Burned up the sky Choir sang as the black birds fell Sorrow rang like the churchyard bells An axe to the trees, smoke for the bees And all our dads died
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