Watch those
patterns repeat, repeat
The swells of children in
their engine breaths
Move like water through the weeds
Out to the dental filling fields
Dry, dark bolt holes rot in the sun
We can still save breakfast,
so sit down with me
Stop tuggin' on your tongue
Boy, it's not gonna give you up
Just keep time with the wheels
out on the road
Each old science that's
dispelled and left alone
We'll either come back on
or stay where it was froze
We have no need for either
Oh, I'm so sorry, my dear
Oh, face me in the cold
Kiss both my cheeks
then pretend that we're just talking
What they won't know
is that we're singing
Oh they say on Christmas 1914
A sound no microphone
would ever catch
would be lost to memories
Sung in three peaceful tones that end
Still they take collections
for their frozen king
The waves in anguish for the magnet
sounds to shake him from asleep
Down in the sulfur groves of the end
Oh my goodness,
what was that that you said
When you saw the wedding party
wander too far west
And in a daze you held
the glass above your head
and sang over what may not be
What you expected, I am she
So kiss me in the cold
Wands on each of my cheeks,
then pretend that we're just talking
What they won't know
is that we're singing
Oh, it's all vegetables in frozen steam
The vents and dentin from
the soldier choir
That formed there in that evening
That's just how simple
our armies can be beat
Oh, they say on Christmas 1914
Somewhere in Belgium in the snow
They show that no one needs a king
Run for comfort is not the same as home
Even though some would have
you believe that you can own
Some of these things that will turn to dust
just like your bones
If it's no one's, then surely
Why would I shoot at you
or have you shoot at me?
Oh, face me in the cold
Kiss both my cheeks
then pretend that we're just talking
What they won't know
is that we're singing
Oh, face me in the cold
Just like those brave men
who woke up from their sleeping
Put down their guns and started
singing
You