Remember The Mountain Bed

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Do you still sing of the mountain
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 bed we made of limbs and leaves?
Do you still sigh there near the sky
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 where the holly berry bleeds?
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You laughed as I covered you over 
with leaves
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Face, breast, hips and thighs
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You smiled when I said the leaves 
     Em       G             D
were just the color of your eyes

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[Verse 2]
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Rosin smells and turpentine 
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smells from eucalyptus and pine
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed 
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where tangled woodbines twine
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Trees held us in on all four sides
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So thick we could not see
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I could not see any wrong in 
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you, and you saw none in me

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[Verse 3]
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Your arm was brown against the 
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ground, your cheeks part of the sky
Your fingers played with grassy 
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moss, as limber you did lie
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Your stomach moved beneath your 
shirt
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And your knees were in the air
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Your feet played games with 
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mountain roots as you lay thinking 
there

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[Verse4]
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Below us the trees grew clumps of 
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trees raised families of trees, and 
they
As proud as we tossed their heads in
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 the wind and flung good seeds away
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The sun was hot and the sun was 
bright
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Down in the valley below
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Where people starved and hungry 
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for life so empty come and go

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[Verse 5]
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There in the shade and hid from 
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the sun we freed our minds and 
learned
Our greatest reason for being here, 
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our bodies moved and burned
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There on our mountain bed of leaves
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We learned life's reason why
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People laugh and love and dream,
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 they fight and they hate to die

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[Verse 6]
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The smell of your hair I know is 
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still there, if most of our leaves 
are blown
Our words still ring in the brush 
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and the trees where singing seeds 
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are sown
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Your shape and form is dim, but 
plain
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There on our mountain bed
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I see my life was brightest where
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 you laughed and laid your head

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[Verse 7]
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I learned the reason why man must 
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work and how to dream big dreams
To conquer time and space and fight 
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the rivers and the seas
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I stand here filled with my 
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emptiness now
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And look at city and land
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I know why farms and cities are 
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built by hot warm nervous hands

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[Verse 8]
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I've crossed many states just to 
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stand here now, my face all hot with
 tears
I've crossed city and valley, desert
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 and stream to bring my body here
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My history and future blaze bright 
in me
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And all my joy and pain
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Go through my head on our mountain
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 bed where I smell your hair again

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[ Verse 9]
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All this day long I linger here 
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and on in through the night
My greeds, my joys, my cravings, 
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hopes, my dreams inside me fight
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My loneliness healed, my emptiness 
filled
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I walk above all pain
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Back to the breast of my woman and
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 child to scatter my seeds again...