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Intro

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 Meet me at

St. Nicholas

Among the oaks

Behind the church

 That sway like pig-tailed girls

As summer wind whistles

 Around your bare-skin knees

 And the forsythia leaves

 In the shade

Lay with me

Tickled by

The feather reed

 That's where the trees grow old

Under the ivy's hold

 As you in my two arms

 Equally safe from harm

 And in a hazy day dream

 Our bodies married the stream

 And we grow down into pebbles and silt

 The water ran from the fields

 Until the oceans we filled

 And found the sea-bed the comfiest quilt

 There was more life in the weeds than in the few hundred seats

 In rows from transept to chancel to nave

 And when their anger had paused, I turned and answered their calls

 With your just audience, I'm the applause

 We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children

 With lilies bunched in our hands

 We fake our concern and speak softly as the surgeon

 Tells wife to cancel her plans

Take a body to water, take a body to tundra

Just take me with you as well