compass bright scarecrow balance blackness 

ember moon girl easy lips 

attacker stare balance ending 

  

light of the caravan and thunder across the vast plain above the wings

loom like sickles above them there wings loom like sickles 

their hearts and their black hearts 

the sand and the sand that darkens the blood 

their wings loom above like sickles 

a son of the earth has not put out the night 

it's breath won't catch up, the wilderness in front (x2) 

  

the sand is thick in the blood 

the moon and the black moon beside the moon 

the owl and the black owl beside the owl 

the moons above like a sickle (x2) 

  

as the hardest day quiet ends 

chalk on the wet wood around the shadow 

of alphabets around the globe 

all of these corrections and all of these failings 

all of these corrections permanent says: 

tell me to remember (x2) 

your pulse beats on forever in the wreckage of this man 

briar is coiled around his star (x2) 

and you write the word for this and you write for this with your eyes closed (x2)