There's Something At The Bottom Of The Black Pool-Augie March

[ti:There's Something At The Botto] [ar:Augie March] [al:Strange Bird] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]There's Something At The Bottom Of The Black Pool - Augie March [00:11.70]There's something at the bottom of the black pool [00:14.38] [00:15.32]I daren't dredge it up not while the weather's still cool [00:19.25]It's a feathered thing its origins are mixed and untrue [00:22.57]Once a straw-body now a lamb-picker now a clove in a black brew [00:27.13] [00:28.26]I think of the peacocks of the gorge [00:30.83]And I think of the gryphons they kept in the Tower Zoo [00:34.01]The unexpected water swept all before it [00:36.39] [00:37.76]As it rushed on terrible through - [00:39.81] [00:40.73]And left them all dead and spread through the park [00:44.16]Amid the myriad mangles of the coming dark - [00:47.10] [00:47.91]Of the shadow of a loon the howl from a bloody craw [00:51.48] [00:51.98]Those strange interruptions don't scare me anymore [00:54.93] [00:56.05]Since all the while the weather was cool [01:00.00]I stood at the crumbling edge of the black pool [01:03.37] [01:10.18]Perhaps a pigeon fell off its stool [01:12.49] [01:15.62]I have drowned a conscience or two [01:18.12] [01:18.81]There are palm trees and clouds and the under-sides of drowned blues [01:22.60] [01:23.35]And sometimes the faces of people I think I knew [01:26.60] [01:27.16]I know at one time this thing flew [01:28.91] [01:30.48]I have sunk an ambition or two [01:32.54] [01:33.60]Now when I think to drink then I wonder with who [01:36.60] [01:37.34]I pretend that I'm sitting in the booth with you - [01:40.66]O what a f**kin' sentence what a f**kin' noise [01:43.22] [01:44.04]I don't know these girls I don't trust these boys [01:47.10] [01:47.66]And over there in the corner there hangs a strange bird [01:50.98] [01:51.59]Sings a strange song but it won't be heard [01:54.85] [01:55.97]A song to enquire whither went the milk money [02:00.22]While the darling babes of Toorak were a'yowling for their honey [02:02.20] [02:24.98]Let's walk up this hill let's go walking up this hill [02:31.79] [02:33.54]The sun is in the middle of the sky the grass is yellow from being dry [02:40.53] [02:41.28]There's music there's you many others here and I [02:46.47] [02:48.09]Up the hill then up where those holy lodestones lie - [02:54.97]How suddenly still and though the wind blow [02:58.40] [02:59.04]From here we will never leave or go [03:01.78] [03:02.60]And but for a will and but for companions [03:05.60] [03:06.16]We might go tumbling home below [03:09.22] [03:10.03]To a place at the table to gamble and settle [03:13.16] [03:13.85]Make the words amiable and able [03:16.28] [03:17.28]Of resting assured in the breast of that bird [03:20.78] [03:21.54]That I sure did not suffer a fool [03:24.03] [03:25.66]Since all the while the weather was cool [03:29.53]I stood at the crumbling edge of the black pool