Owens Lament Lyrics by Augie March

Owens Lament Lyrics

    Level your fretting. I won't be forgetting the flush of your face
    When I lifted you level to me and a wattle tree framed your body.
    In whispers welling with the dope of a new Spring
    You said "Kill me a dynasty or our love won't mean a thing..."
    A bullet for a diamond ring.
    A favour promised
    A 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 me
    Whether 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 body
    In a ragged flag and bloody -
    O not on your life.


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