Epiphany - John Isaac Watters

East of Arizona west of New Orleans

Found a bleached skeleton in a pair of blue jeans

A bloody belt of shells across a cage of ribs

Sings «Man is in love and loves what vanishes»

And I would sail around the world just to get her back

Lay ten thousand miles of railroad track.

Sail around the world just to get her back

Man is in love and loves what vanishes.

Rise up dry bones, rise up and tell

Where home is found what makes us well.

Rise up dry bones and dancing round

Defy the dust in which you are found

oon enough they’ll lay you underneath a tree

Like they’ll do to me, like they’ll do to me

It’s for you that I’ve been given this epiphany

My sweet lily, my sweet lily

Till the organist cacophonous

Scares the sparrows from the trees

And the belfries bells bang boisterously

As a bird wings on the breeze round me… round me!

Then my lily white will be reunited

With the only lover she’s ever really gonna need

And like the Mexican blanket in the living room

Ill keep her beating heart warm so she’s not lonely… not lonely!

Rise up dry bones, rise up and tell

Where home is found what makes us well.

Rise up dry bones and dancing round

Defy the dust in which you are found.