Lyrics Remember the Mountain Bed.lrc Wilco
[id: eiystjus]
[ar: Wilco]
[al: Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions]
[ti: Remember the Mountain Bed]
[length: 06:26]
[00:08.58]Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?
[00:15.59]Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?
[00:23.81]You laughed as I covered you over with leaves
[00:27.04]Face, breast, hips, and thighs
[00:30.47]You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes
[01:14.36]Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
[01:20.56]Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine
[01:29.91]Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see
[01:36.24]I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me
[01:56.23]Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky
[02:02.48]Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie
[02:09.61]Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
[02:21.05]Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there
[02:33.29]Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
[02:38.54]As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
[02:46.20]The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
[02:54.96]Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go
[03:09.96]There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned
[03:16.11]Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
[03:22.79]There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life’s reason why
[03:33.47]The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die
[03:45.79]The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown
[03:51.22]Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown
[03:58.10]Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed
[04:06.33]I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head…
[04:27.99]I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams
[04:33.96]To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas
[04:40.03]I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land
[04:50.53]And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands
[05:02.55]I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears
[05:09.50]I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here
[05:16.11]My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain
[05:26.05]Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.
[05:38.00]All this day long I linger here and on in through the night
[05:45.24]My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight:
[05:53.42]My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain
[06:02.48]Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again
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