WHAT COULD THE WORLD DO?
Was someone there to meet you
When you finally got back
was someone there to get the door
did anyone react?
was someone there to listen
to the bullets you had seen
could anybody christen
Yr mad ecstatic dreams?
cause you were born on concrete
already far away
from the blest creator
resting in the hay
the wolves don't say sorry
for making birds afraid
& the birds don't say sorry
from underneath the blade
What could the world do to make it up to you?
And would you forgive it if it wanted to?
would the world do anything
would it just be the same?
they already smeared their fingerprints
upon your private name
and you know that no one knows
time that you took flight
with your babes against your breast
thru cold and shrieking night
oh what could it say
and what could be done
when ever since you were born
you were made to run
girl how could it be fixed
what really could he said
when their sticky fantasies
already soiled yr bed
What could the World do to make it up to you
and would you forgive it if it wanted to?
grandma told you 'Everything
goes back to the same earth'
but mom's been limping all her life
to hold the unsolved hurt
and everyones opinions
are spinning in your veins
and you've not found anything
that will lift the stains
and does it want to fix things-
if it did, what could it say?
when grandma left so long ago
to planes so far away
now what could anybody do-
what truly could be done?
and when will it get pure inside
the Great Eternal Sun?
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oh what could it say
and what could it do
when it doesn't even know
what it's done to you
and you couldn't even teach
what it doesn't even know
and the path here was so steep
and the winters were so slow
and you're only just arrived
and now you have to go
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and the doctors words
and the law-mans pen
and your little birds
Are crying again
and the church-mans words
and your fathers pen
and the things they heard
and the things you meant
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what could the world do to make it up to you
and would you forgive it if it wanted to?