The Killing Fields
Rosanne Cash
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You crossed on Brooklyn Ferry not a boy, but not a man Left behind the Navy Yard And your father's mislaid plans I was at the other ocean And I could not get away From the flurry of emergencies every single day There was cotton on the killing fields It blows down through the years It sticks to me just like a burn fills my eyes and ears And all that came before me is not everything I am A girl who settled far too low On religion and that man The low ebb of the rocky soil The high tide of the trees The dust of men and thunderstorms The parched and rolling sea He's running through the killing fields Just like a hunted deer Impartial moon, uncaring stars He falls where no one hears The blood that runs on cypress trees Cannot be washed away by mothers' tears And gasoline and secrets un-betrayed I know it's hard to hear these words They sure are hard to say But listen to the mockingbird Who sings over their graves The ripple of the life unlived The ghosts of mice and men The empty space of one man's heart And what he might have been St. Margaret, she looks over us St. Margaret and her kin At the far edge of the killing fields She stands there now and then So goodbye to your Navy Yard Goodbye to my sea A truce between the East and West And my Southern history And goodbye to the killing fields I'll break every single bow 'Cause all that came before you And all that came before me And all that came before us Is not who we are now
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Written by: Rosanne Cash
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