There was a man who used to live by the ocean But he never set foot in the sea It made him nervous that the water was always in motion And he feared the creatures who swam beneath
And when i asked him how he'd ended up there Above a world he would never know He said he'd driven all the way across america And when he got to the edge there was nowhere left to go
Nowhere left to go
He said that nothing lives long, only the earth and the mountains As he quoted black kettle's death song The words drifting off into the emptiness Of this great land where we've never belonged
And while the frontiers are ever-expanding Our living rooms fall into disarray And no one seems interested in fixing what they've broken They just sweep the pieces into the bushes and slip away
And slowly slip away
And now he and i watch the foxglove grow through the clearcut Where a forest once grew high and wild For what is a funeral without flowers And ten thousand tombstones reaching for the sky
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