Mother Banjo

1. Come life, come to me
My bones are tired
Work has driven from me all my desire

I can't make it out
The hand is fading
The words on the pages they have left me


2. Come life, come to me
When did you lose me?
One day I woke up and there was no green

I found gray and white
A blur of snowtime
I am full of cold; I hear a crow cry


3. Come life, come to me
The light eternal
Beckons to me; I cannot but follow

Come life, come to me
I see him waiting
I guess he thought I was worth saving...

1. You sneak back with the snow
So fine and light you blow
But like birds you call and scream

You find your way back here
Like you always knew me clear
Like the red doors of home


Chorus:
But my white love and you
Don’t know how to


2. You come ‘round my door
Tear up hearth and floor
And pull me from the fire

You haunt and fight me
Try to laugh it lightly
As snow turns to rain


Chorus


3. You always find a way in
Seep and creep in my skin
No more, I’ve flushed you out

You’re not welcome here
I can see you clear
Like the leaving snow...


4. You blew on east of here
Making all both bright and green
The blinding white all gone

Spring and stems are back
Buds burst the cracks
Dirt instead of pain


But my white love and you
So wild we blew

My white love and you
We’re through...

1. Your green jacket, shiny and wet
It's a shell that keeps you hiding like that
I saw you, a darting bright flame
Fiery you burn, fight ice and pain


Chorus:
But you don't wear your crazy out, on the outside
Like a roamer so long gone, by the wayside


2. Your black shades blink at me
Dull and dim, they close too fast
You look away, find exits near
Gone with a flash, you're in the clear

Chorus

2. Your speedy wheels pass by me
They turned and fled just like your feet
That ran up the wall and brought me down
Wild you fly, hawks circling 'round

Chorus

3. Your warped wooden door locked me out
Sealed tight with bolts and towels
Solid and strange, you have no give
Boxes stacked high, life on the edge

But you don't live here, on the outside
Like a lover that l lost and I can't find