East Enders Wives

We met by chance by the row river sign

Our soft fire danced as our tea leaves dried

She hatched our plans in the atmospheric times

Said, "Let's give up sacrifice this land

Well, that joke's long, it's been spent"

Before the bagpipes played

We kept cool in the parasol shade

Your gum on my pain at my tender age

East enders wives

And hidden in the fox thorn blind

We grew old as the fox trailed by

Sheep in the cold shielding our gold

Sipping on milk and water like

She packed our bags on arbitrary times

And waved like a flag from the white star line

On more than will though I self-apologize

We both been untrue but I'm still counting on you

Like an invisible rosary

And as the past and all plans are undone

Slowly sank like a shipwrecked sun

Ridges and ropes, burning man throats

Burned up the sky

Fires hang as the black birds fell

Sorrow rang like the church-yard bells

And as the trees smoking living

And all our dads died