job's tears

today's litany brought to you by the incredible string band.

We're all still here - no one has gone away - Waiting...
Acting much too well, and procrastinating...

The cross of the earth
The four winds point them
Body to body
Seas to anoint them
The reed they brought him
Sponge and vinegar
Fiery serpents
Spitting gold and cinnamon
The moon was bleeding
And stars were shallow
And the sword that killed him
Was a sword of willow
"Hello, I must be going. I only came to say -
I hear my mother calling, and I must be on my way..."
O I remember it all from before -

The winter and midnight
Could not hold him
Fire could not burn him
Nor earth enfold him
Rise up, Lazarus
Sweet and salty
Brothers soldiers
Stop your gambling and talk to me
The thieves were stealers
But reason condemned him
And the grave was empty
Where they had laid him
"Hello, I must be going. I only came to say -
I hear my mother calling, and I must be on my way..."
O I remember it all from before -

...But stranger than that, we're alive.
Stranger than that,
Stranger than that,
Stranger than that, we're alive.



Whatever you think, it's more than that, more than that.