Bones and Ivy - Those Poor Bastards

Choke the moon

Crush the sky

Don’t let life pass you by

Summer storm

Spring parade

March along in this charade

On a raft of bones and ivy

I sailed the Mississipp

In a pool of boiling water

I took myself a dip

Lost at night

In a maze of pine

I begged the stars to make you mine

The needles tore

My aching back

I tensed to meet the next attack

On a raft of bones and ivy

I sailed the Mississipp

In a pool of boiling water

I took myself a dip

When all life

Is no more

Listen to the silence roar

Find a hole

Twelve feet wide

Curse your birth then crawl inside

On a raft of bones and ivy

I sailed the Mississipp

In a pool of boiling water

I took myself a dip

I took myself a dip