Bodies

You've grown up so much since I saw you all those days ago

Still got that look about you still got those things that we know

Red gilded place in the woods and the words that were said

Black twisted branches that hid all the things that we did

You threaded wasps on to string and you gave them to me

You touched the edges of their wings and the insides of me

All of the years make a picture that's faded and bright

All of the years make us different and faded and bright

Bring back the bodies and lay them out for me

Smooth down their crisp clear white wings in the morning

Bring back the yellow and black of the bodies

Lay them out slowly and string them up gently for me

Small piles of sticks built up like temples to time in the sun

Beds of green leaves laid out where fear and O negative burn

Strange to see you in a suit but your shoes are still red

Strange to see you at the front after all that you said

Your face changed a long time ago

But you're the same underneath this sleet

That whirls around like a line between worlds

And there are birds in here singing lullabies to me

About bodies and you and me and all that we've seen

And you and all that you've seen

Bring back the bodies and open them for me

Lift out their shimmering hearts in the morning

Bring back the yellow and black of the ocean

Let me out slowly and sing to me coldly

Bring back the yellow and black of the bodies

Let me in slowly and string me up sensitively