Addie:
As I lay dying- descending into hell
I can hear them building the box
driving in the nails…
You cannot bathe me of my sins-oh no
A matter of words just the same- salvation too
Don’t try to save me - you can only forestall what must be
Life is preparing to stay dead
no shining light to see
Unfurl my soul…
Darl:
I cannot love my mother- my mother is no more
death a constant familiar- life its sullen core
She cannot be if she is was- oh no
her eyes like two flames just blown out
and I said, “ Jewel, your mother is dead”
The odyssey continues
her only wish to be fulfilled
their motives are in question here
despite what she has willed
Unfurl my soul…
credits
from Promise and Prayer,
released October 28, 1998
Joe Wilford / Jason Byrne / Rowan Bishop
Extra Credit: Dale Nixon - Bass, Steve LaCerra - Percussion and verbal harassment.
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