Arise, Therefore

There will be no end soon
If I've seen things right that have come
People will be scared
They never will see anything
Meanwhile all of my friends have been struck dumb

How can no final thing come
When our faces are pulled from us
How can someone blame
Who they refuse to name
For pulling other people down with them

Some have risen, they are lucky
To have their fall delayed by people
What they have is threaded
Grafted, and plotted


Played out and bad

Some have made mistakes for us
Waiting by the door for us
We told them to go ahead
Their support is just a weight
Better to sever the weighted limb

Where is it hanging tonight
It is not looming to propel us along
We move ourselves to it
One year to sit in dirt
One cycle with which to comment upon the dirt

(Bonnie Prince Billy)

Quail and Dumplings

holes in our ceiling, holes in our roof
hope that we've got it made have gone in a poof
when we gonna be turnin the tide
when we gonna see we got god on our side

quail and dumplings down to the end
god and her minions as our bosom friends
we got empty tummies but it won't always be
one day it's gonna be quail and dumplings for we

too big our slippers too small our bed
too bent our bosom and too broke our head
we must tip the bottom in order to rise
find peace in a hobble to find home in the skies

quail and dumplings down to the end
god and her minions as our bosom friends
we got empty tummies but it won't always be
one day it's gonna be quail and dumplings for we

what of me why do you and me
and i a woman and you a man
why wait for someday, why make a plan
fuck birds in the bushes let's take 'em in hand

weather ain't judgment and money ain't love
the crimes of a criminal ain't doubt from above
i'll hold your hand and we'll say it's enough
satisfied minds clean hearts and clean tongues

quail and dumplings down to the end
god and her minions as our bosom friends
we got empty tummies but it won't always be
one day it's gonna be quail and dumplings for we

(Bonnie Prince Billy)

After I Made Love To You

Eloquent, I soon retire
To nothing else I may aspire
After I've made love to you

In the dark I see you glisten
To your breath I lay and listen
After I've made love to you

In your arms I'm softly resting
Memories of you undressing
And your lips my final blessing
I never knew

The embrace that I'd been lacking
Has been found with kisses smacking
And two bodies there attacking
I and you

Baby, why don't we feel guilty?
Why's it seem we're doing right
When we're doing something filthy
In a rented room tonight?

I think it's 'cause we love the now
We love forever love and how
And my life's your love anyway
And your life's my love everyday

You are mine oh now forever
Think of you always wherever
After I've made love to you
After I've made love to you

(Bonnie Prince Billy)