you are a great divide the bitter side of Memphis
and Mussel Shoals has never looked so fine
fire in the sideview and the Mississippi shimmering
the Mississippi shines
you in a flowered dress fluttering before me
this is still the way it always starts
we spin around each other like satellites in tandem
until we fall apart
18 months gone unremembered
to think that you are dead unto me now
drunken words from the book of Hank
I have all my stars to thank
you are a million miles away
there is no diary of you and me but what you see
you bury everything you think you love
beneath the tangled roots and marrow of the hanging tree
I’ve watched you dig for hours in the mud
18 months gone unremembered
to think that you are dead unto me now
what a modest way to be
you are the perfect tragedy
you are a million miles away
I shall be a witness to this strange emancipation
I shall be a witness to the spillage of this soul
I shall share the burden of every tear between us
I shall be a witness to this all
18 months gone unremembered
to think that you are dead unto me now
everything I’ve ever said
falling out of me like mercury
you are a million miles away