Owen's Lament

Owen's Lament - Augie March

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 d**e 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 love and war we are bound by a law

It goes to you and then to yours to recover my body

Recover my body

Recover my body

Recover my body

There goes my baby

I would think of you

And a palmtree would cover your body

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

You in love and war we are bound by a law

It goes to you and then to yours to recover my body

Recover my body