The Leaves-The Boy Bathing

[ti:The Leaves] [ar:The Boy Bathing] [al:A Fire To Make Preparations] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Leaves - The Boy Bathing [00:01.87]Mary your leaves are all cold [00:04.25] [00:05.13]But why do they take on such youth when you're old [00:07.78] [00:09.87]Once you were made up with Christmas lights and bells [00:12.44] [00:13.42]But you were hollow on the inside and no one could tell [00:16.06] [00:16.75]What good is your life if you're stuck in your roots [00:19.06]Can't feel any sun 'cause you're under a roof [00:21.71]Let go of the leaves mary and fingers are all bone [00:26.26] [00:27.40]There will be photographs to remember your place on the lawn [00:33.39] [00:47.27]You collect the leaves to scatter on your farm [00:51.31] [00:52.57]And grow cautious fruit on nervous apple trees [00:57.48] [00:59.66]Shaking from their roots doesn't keep them warm [01:04.63] [01:05.95]Frost comes before the freeze [01:10.06] [01:12.30]There is no place in the dirt for a sailor like me [01:15.78]Who sees trees chained not rooted to the earth [01:18.33] [01:18.84]So I pack my bags and wander to the docks [01:24.32] [01:25.19]To pull out the hermit crabs and collect the bottle tops [01:31.67] [01:38.43]Where the water is clean [01:40.24]I will see your face again [01:41.93] [01:43.48]I won't have to bail [01:45.97] [01:46.93]I've got a new white sail [01:49.54] [01:50.82]When I drift to the ocean floor [01:55.65] [01:56.33]They could say I fell into a spiral shell [02:03.18]And you can say I want another Camelot [02:08.62] [02:09.51]In the clean white cloth of a restaurant [02:14.06] [02:15.70]And then the telephone sounds like a microphone [02:20.96] [02:22.67]A head of stone [02:28.41] [02:40.13]The blades of grass all around it grew [02:44.61] [02:45.52]Green where the dirt moved [02:48.04] [02:50.13]Not a place to rest [02:51.70] [02:52.87]I am cutting down on the grass [02:54.77] [02:57.51]And fighting with the emptiness [03:00.07] [03:02.32]Buried to fertilize the trees trees [03:15.92] [03:21.35]I don't want to see you stabbing on the lawn tonight [03:25.34] [03:26.99]With a garbage can of leaves and a flashlight [03:30.99] [03:34.02]I don't want to see you stabbing on the lawn tonight [03:38.10] [03:39.60]With a garbage can of leaves and a flashlight [03:43.67] [03:46.80]I don't want to see you stabbing on the lawn tonight [03:51.01] [03:52.34]With a garbage can of leaves and a flashlight [03:56.41] [03:59.59]I don't want to see you stabbing on the lawn tonight [04:03.80] [04:05.46]With a garbage can of leaves and a flashlight [04:08.92] [04:25.21]I don't want to see you stabbing on the lawn tonight [04:29.41] [04:30.81]With a garbage can of leaves and a flashlight