compass bright scarecrow balance blackness ember moon girl easy lips attacker stare balance ending light of the caravan and thunder across the vast plain above the wings loom like sickles above them there wings loom like sickles their hearts and their black hearts the sand and the sand that darkens the blood their wings loom above like sickles a son of the earth has not put out the night it's breath won't catch up, the wilderness in front (x2) the sand is thick in the blood the moon and the black moon beside the moon the owl and the black owl beside the owl the moons above like a sickle (x2) as the hardest day quiet ends chalk on the wet wood around the shadow of alphabets around the globe all of these corrections and all of these failings all of these corrections permanent says: tell me to remember (x2) your pulse beats on forever in the wreckage of this man briar is coiled around his star (x2) and you write the word for this and you write for this with your eyes closed (x2)