Murmuration

Way up here I see it all Bricks and mortar, short life boxes Coagulate in village shapes Tiny people, starling sized Last night's dreams Will file and prize away the chains And here I am Drawing back the curtains on my stage The only crowd are shades They fidget while I sing another page I clear the snowfall And shift the dead newspaper in My naked shoes One step forward, two steps back The traffic coffin black She's trying on her royal skin In the shape of a clouding bird He's standing with a book of sins And granite scratched with words Murmuration Fall in feathered patterns Swirling sky above This is just the way that things will be One for temper, two for the crow One to lose you, two to have and hold One step to her left And two steps right The laundry flopping white She's trying on her royal skin In the shape of a cloud in birth He's standing with a book of sins And granite scratched with words Murmuration Fall in feathered patterns Swirling sky above Coronation He's a king in stone and staring up in love This is just the way That things will be There lived a lady by the shore Lay the bent to the bonnie broom Two daughters were the babes she bore Fa la la la la la la la la la As one grew bright as is the sun Lay the bent to the bonnie broom So coal black grew the elder one Fa la la la la la la la la la