Sadie

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Sadie, white coat
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you carry me home
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And bury this bone
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and take this pine cone

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Bury this bone to
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Gnaw on it later
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Gnawing on the telephone
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Until then, we pray and suspend
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The notion that these lives do never end

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And all day long we talk about mercy
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Lead me to water, Lord, I sure am thirsty
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Down in the ditch where I nearly served you
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Up in the clouds where he almost heard you

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And all that we built and all that we breathed
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And all that we spilt, or pulled up like weeds
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Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably
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And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me
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And bless you, and I deeply do
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No longer resolute, oh and I call to you
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But the water go so cold
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And you do lose what you don't hold

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This is an old song, these are old blues
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And this is not my tune, but it's mine to use
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And the seabirds where the fear once grew
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Will flock with a fury and they will bury what'd come for you

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And down where I darn with the milk-eyed mender
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You and I, and a love so tender
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Stretched on a hoop where I stitched this adage:
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"Bless our house and its heart so savage"

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And all that I want, and all that I need
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And all that I've got is scattered like seed
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And all that I knew is moving away from me
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And all that I know is blowing like tumbleweed

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And the mealy worms in the brine will burn
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In a salty pyre among the fauns and ferns
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And the love we hold, and the love we spurn
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Will never grow cold, only taciturn
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And I'll tell you tomorrow

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Sadie, go on home now
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And bless those who've sickened below
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And bless us who have chosen so

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And all that I've got and all that I need
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I tie in a knot and I lay at your feet
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And I have not forgot, but a silence crept over me
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So dig up your bone, exhume your pine cone, my Sadie
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