Call Your Boys
Call Your boys now that the table's set and shining
no one's seen any of them in many days
Call your boys they shut a buzzard on a chrysler
And you still taste all that you swallowed before grace
And you'll forgive even the time they burned the hen house
And ran from you ran to the hills with burning hands
Setting sun framed in the doorway right behind you
Several chores, surely some lessons left to tell
Setting sun was in the hills and now before you
Set your boys each with their shining silverware
They'll bury you under the wood beside the carport
They'll bury you some neon stop along the way
Radio fuzz on the fence post by the pasture
Long ago Liza and you would dance all day
Now you lay buried, the stern and sacred father
And sacred earth under the billboard in the rain
For one last toast here's to the brave who went before
us
Who died in vain, died in a movie for a dream
Dearest Forsaken
To my dearest forsaken
Who the earth now has taken
Empty, the bottle drains no more
It is true that I loved you
Despite the harm that I own you
Wash out the river has you boy
Here on the eve of too long
Where you'll think i've done wrong
Waking in fear of you no more
I'll put my trust in the savior
Fielding forces of nature
Strength of the stump I tied you boy
To my dearest forsaken
Dearest vow I have broken
Afraid of your angry hands no more
I'll put my trust in the savior
River may help me later
Sleeping my lost love for you boy