歌词
Do you still sing of the mountain bed
We made of limbs and leaves:
Do you still sigh there near the sky
Where the holly berry bleeds:
You laughed as I covered you over
With leaves face breast hips and thighs
You smiled when I said the leaves were
Just the color of your eyes
Rosin smells and turpentine smells
From eucalyptus and pine
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed
Where tangled woodvines twine
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick
We could not see
I could not see any wrong in you
And you saw none in me
Your arm was brown against the ground
Your cheeks part of the sky
As your fingers played with grassy moss
And limber did you lie:
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt
And your knees were in the air
Your feet played games with mountain roots
As you lay thinking there
Below us the trees grew clumps of trees
Raised families of trees and they
As proud as we tossed their heads
In the wind and flung good seeds away:
The sun was hot and the sun
Was bright down in the valley below
Where people starved and hungry
For life so empty come and go
There in the shade and hid from
The sun we freed our minds and learned
Our greatest reason for being here
Our bodies moved and burned
There on our mountain bed of leaves
We learned lifes reason why
The people laugh and love and dream
They fight they hate to die
The smell of your hair I know is still there
If most of our leaves are blown
Our words still ring in the brush
And the trees where singing seeds are sown
Your shape and form is dim
But plain there on our mountain bed
I see my life was brightest where you laughed
And laid your head
I learned the reason why man must work
And how to dream big dreams
To conquer time and space
And fight the rivers and the seas
I stand here filled with my emptiness now
And look at city and land
And I know why farms and cities are built
By hot warm nervous hands
I crossed many states just to stand here now
My face all hot with tears
I crossed city and valley desert and stream
To bring my body here:
My history and future blaze bright in me
And all my joy and pain
Go through my head on our mountain bed
Where I smell your hair again
All this day long I linger here
And on in through the night
My greeds desires my cravings hopes
My dreams inside me fight:
My loneliness healed my emptiness filled
I walk above all pain
Back to the breasts of my woman and child
To scatter my seeds again