Augie March - Owen's 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 favor 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 your 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 palm tree 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
Oh how the mother loves thee
She covered my body
In a ragged flag and bloody
Oh, not on your life