Augie March - Owen's Lament Lyrics
Level your fretting. I won't be forgetting the flush of your faceWhen I lifted you level to me and a wattle tree framed your body.In whispers welling with the dope of a new SpringYou said "Kill me a dynasty or our love won't mean a thing..."A bullet for a diamond ring.A favour promisedA promise delivered and more to you -It's only a war I'll be back to your shore before you know it I'm gone,Then I'll cover you body.And if you have to go please go lightly,Keep it to a foxtrot whether he's a fox or not.Keep it cold, keep all your heat for me -I'll be needing it for when I'm cold you see?Let your children remind you of meWhether by another or by the ghost in me in you -There goes my baby.I would think of you and a palmtree would cover your body.You - in love and war we are bound by a law,it goes to you and then to yours to recover my body.She bound me up and hugged me'O how the mother loves thee'She covered my bodyIn a ragged flag and bloody -O not on your life.
