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  Whose is the hand that I will hold

  Whose is the face I will see

  Whose is the name that I will call

 When I called to meet thee

  In this life who did you love

  Beneath the drifting a - shes

  Beneath the shee ting banks of air

 That barrenly pour our ra - tions

  When I could speak it was too late

  Didn't you hear me ca - lling

  Didn't you see my heart leap like a

  Pup in the constant bar - ley

  In this life where did you crouch

  When the sky had set to bo - iling

  Burning within seen from without

 In your gut was a serpent coi - ling

 And for the sake of that pit of snakes

 For whom did you allay your shyness

 And spend on your mercy and madness and grace

 In a day beneath the bending cy press

  It was not on principle, show, pro- heart, that you have got gall

  F#m mira cle: I can bear lot but not that pall

  I can bear lot but not that pall, kingfisher sound the larm

 Say, "Sweet little darling, now come to my arms"

 Tell me all about the love you left on the farm"

  He was a kind and hurried man, with a heavy lip and a steady hand

 But he loved me just like little child, a little child loves little lamb

  Thrown to the ground by something down there

  Bitten by the bad air while the clouds tick

  Trying to read all the signs

 Pre paring for when the bombs hit

  Hung from the under belly of

 The earth while the stars skid way be low

  Gormless and brakless, gravel-loose falling

  silent as gavels in the snow

  La la la la la la la la la la la la la la

  I lay back and spit in my chaw

  wrapped in the long arm of the law

  Who has seen it all

  I can bear lot but not that pall

  I can bear a lot but not that pall, Kingfisher, cast your fly

  Oh, lord it happens with out even trying

 When I sling a low look from my shuttering eye

  Blows rain upon the one you loved

 And though you were only spar ring

 There's blood in the eye unlace the glove

 Say honey, I not sor - ry

  Stand here and name the one you loved

  Beneath the drifting a - shes

  And in na ming rise above

  Time as it, flashing, pas - ses

  Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh

  Oooh Oooh Oooh Oooh

  We came by the boatload and were im mobilized

  Worshipping volcanoes, charting the loping skies

  The tides of the earth left us bound and calcified, and made us

  Obstinate as obsidian, unmoving save our eyes

  Just mooning and blinking, from faces marked with coal

  Ash cooling and shrinking, cracks loud as thunder rolling, I swear

  I know you, you know me, where have we met before, tell me true

  To whose au - thority do you con sign your soul?

  I had a dream you came to me, said, " You shall not do me harm anymore"

  And with your knife you e victed my life from its little lighthouse on

 the sea Am shore

 And I saw that my blood had no bound, spreading in a circle like an D atom bomb

  Soaking and felling every thing in its path, and welling in my heart like

 a F bird bath

  It is too short the day we are born we commence with our dying

  Trying to serve with the heart of a child, Kingfisher, lie with the li - on