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lyrics

A Happy Song

The sun is black, the poppies red
I wish I had more to add.
They're dragging the river,
they can't find the body
if they can't find the body
then how
can I have a wake?

This art of longing, it is no art
and of this science I want no part
it's the cruel, relentless carving
of wind on stone
it's the crushing of gravel
beneath an ocean

My dreams come true it worries me
I dream all I've lost comes back to me
and it smells like lillies
it smells like lillies
it smells like springtime and dust

The frost congeals, the flowers die
they long to sleep and so do I
want out from under
the thumb of human kindness
I pinch out the flame of my own vision
so I might survive

Made reckless by your beauty
I wrecked this thing I call my future
now this ruined landscape
I must survey
knowing that I was insane

The moon's gone out the flowers fade
I guess I had more to add
they're dragging the river
they can't find the body
if they can't find the body then how
can I have a wake?

The loss of love through death or
separation
is more than the ego can bear.

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from Little Misery Birds, released January 1, 1996

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Kathleen Yearwood Ordeal

Guitarist and singer for over 30 years. Plays folk- concrete music. Structured inprovisations, random acts of bad dance and odd-ience participaction. Smashed glass and naked men. From Slovenia to iceland.

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