Around the Well

Oh, I've just come from the land of the sun From a war that must be won in the name of truth With our soldiers so brave, your freedom we will save With our rifles and grenades and some help from God I want to see my family My wife and child are waiti

Please, remember me Happily By the rosebush laughing With bruises on my chin The time when We counted every black car passing Your house beneath the hill And up until Someone caught us in the kitchen With maps, a mountain range, A piggy bank A vision

Talk of yesterday and She will show her Brothers photographed In callous clothes. Say tomorrow and She'll say come find me On a beach, and there will no moon. But say today, and she will kiss your face And maybe forget. Talk of yesterday like bargain

God made the automobile To pass all the pretty girls That smoke by the side of the road Their blues lovin' boys in tow To drive until the of the day And bow to a borrowed flag Beside all the brave and the blind And men without men in mind To pass all

The kettle burned because I left it too long When we were kissing with the radio on The cat was choking on a rattlesnake bone The town had gathered around the soldier boy Carried home And every summer there was imminent rain The sick kids ate a bowl