Remember The Mountain Bed
Wilco

Do you still sing of the mountain bed we made of limbs and leaves?
Do you still sigh there near the sky where the holly berry bleeds?
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves
Face, breast, hips, and thighs
You smiled when I said the leaves were just the color of your eyes

Rosin smells and turpentine smells from eucalyptus and pine
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled wood vines twine
Trees held us in on all four sides so thick we could not see
I could not see any wrong in you, and you saw none in me

Your arm was brown against the ground, your cheeks part of the sky
Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber you did lie
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and your knees were in the air
Your feet played games with mountain roots as you lay thinking there

Below us the trees grew clumps of trees, raised families of trees, and they
As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind and flung good seeds away
The sun was hot and the sun was bright down in the valley below
Where people starved and hungry for life so empty come and go

There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned
Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why
The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die

The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown
Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown
Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed
I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head...

I learned the reason why man must work and how to dream big dreams
To conquer time and space and fight the rivers and the seas
I stand here filled with my emptiness now and look at city and land
And I know why farms and cities are built by hot, warm, nervous hands

I crossed many states just to stand here now, my face all hot with tears
I crossed city, and valley, desert, and stream, to bring my body here
My history and future blaze bright in me and all my joy and pain
Go through my head on our mountain bed where I smell your hair again.

All this day long I linger here and on in through the night
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes, my dreams inside me fight:
My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled, I walk above all pain
Back to the breast of my woman and child to scatter my seeds again


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  Childlike And Evergreen   How To Fight Lonliness   I Am Not Willing   No More Poetry   The Lonely 1 (White Hen Version)   The T.B. Is Whipping Me   Who Were You Thinking Of   (Was I) In Your Dreams   [Untitled]   2Heavy Metal Drummer   A Magazine Called Sunset   A Magazine Called Sunset [*]   A Shot in the Arm   A Shot In The Arm (Remix)   Against Th' Law   Against The Law   Airline to Heaven   All You Fascists   All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose   Alone   Another Man's Done Gone   Another Man's Done Gone   Any Major Dude Will Tell You   Art Of Almost   Ashes Of American Flags   At Least That's What You Said   At Least That's What You Said   At My Window Sad And Lonely   Barnyard Pimp   Be Not So Fearful   Be Not So Fearful   Birds And Ships   Black Moon   Black Wind Blowing   Blasting Fonda   Blood Of The Lamb   Blue Eyed Soul   Bob Dylan's 49th Beard   Bob Dylan's 49th Beard   Born Alone   Box Full of Letters   Bull Black Nova   California Stars   Camera   Can't Stand It   Can't Stand It   Candy Floss   Candyfloss   Candyfloss [Hidden Track]   Capitol City   Casino Queen   Childlike & Evergreen   Christ For President   Cold Slope   Comment   Comment (If All Men Are Truly Brothers)   Common Sense   Company In My Back   Country Disappeared   Cry All Day   Daggers Drawn   Dark Neon   Dash 7   Dawned On Me   Deeper Down   Diamond Claw   Don't You Honey Me   Don't You Honey Me   Doubt   Dreamer in My Dreams   Eisler On The Go   Either Way   Ekg   ELT   ELT (King Size Demo Version)   ELT [King Size Demo]   Everlasting Everything   Far Far Away   Far, Far Away   Feed Of Man   Forget the Flowers   Glad It's Over   Glad It's Over   Hamami   Handshake Drugs   Handshake Drugs (Live)   Handshake Drugs [*]   Happiness   Hate It Here   Heavy Metal Drummer   Hell Is Chrome   Here Comes Everybody   Hesitating Beauty   Hoodoo Voodoo   Hot Rod Hotel   Hotel Arizona   How to Fight Loneliness   Hummingbird   I Am Not Willing   I Am Trying To Break Your Hear   I Am Trying To Break Your Heart   I Can't Stand It   I Got You   I Got You (At the End of the Century)   I Guess I Planted   I Love My Label   I Might   I Might (Single)   I Must Be High   I Thought I Held You   I Wanna Be Your Dog   I Was Born   I'll Fight   I'm a Wheel   I'm Always In Love   I'm The Man Who Loves You   I'm Trying To Break Your Heart   I'm A Wheel   I'm Always In Love   I'm The Man Who Loves You   If I Ever Was a Child   Impossible Germany   In a Future Age   In a Future Age [Alternate Version] [Hidden Track]   Ingrid Bergman   It's Just That Simple   It's Just That Simple   Jesus Etc.   Jesus, Ect.   Jesus, Etc.   Joe DiMaggio's Done It Again   Joe Dimaggio's Done It Again   Just A Kid   Just Say Goodbye   Kamera   Kicking Television   Kicking Television [*]   King Of You   Kingpin   Late Greats   Leave Me (Like You Found Me)   Less Than You Think   Let Me Come Home   Let's Not Get Carried Away   Let's Not Get Carried Away   Life Left Him There   Locator   Magazine Called Sunset   Magnetized   Meanest Man   Message From Mid-Bar   Misunderstood   Monday   More Like The Moon   More...   Muzzle of Bees   My Darling   My Flying Saucer   My Thirty Thousand   No More Poetry   Nope   Normal American Kids   Not for the Season   Nothing Up My Sleeve   Nothing's ever gonna stand in my way   Nothing's Ever Gonna Stand In My Way Again   Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)   Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (again) [David Kahn...   Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway(Again)   Nothingsevergonnastandinmyway (Again)   Nothingsevergonnastandinmyway(again)   On And On And On   One By One   One Hundred Years from Now (Gram Parsons cover)   One Sunday Morning   One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfrie...   One True Vine   One Wing   Open Mind   Outta Mind (Outta Sight)   Outta Mind (Outta Site)   Outtasite (Outta Mind)   Outtasite (Outtamind)   Panthers   Panthers [*]   Passenger Side   Pecan Pie   Pick up the Change   Pickled Ginger   Pieholden Suite   Please Be Patient With Me   Please Tell My Brother   Poor Places   Pot Kettle Black   Promising   Pure Bug Beauty   Quarters   Radio Cure   Radio King   Random Name Generator   Red-Eyed and Blue   Reservations   Retrieval of You   Rhythm   Rising Red Lung   Rottnest   Say You Miss Me   Secrets Of The Sea   Shake It Off   She Came Along To Me   She's A Jar   She's a Jar [Austin Demo]   She's A Jar   Shot in the Arm   Should've Been in Love   Should've Been In Love   Shouldn't Be Ashamed   Shouldn't Be Ashamed   Shrug and Destroy   Side With The Seeds   Sky Blue Sky   Solitaire   Someday Soon   Someday, Some Morning, Sometime   Someone Else's Song   Someone Else's Song   Someone to Lose   Sometimes It Happens   Sonny Feeling   Speak Into The Rose   Spiders   Spiders (Kidsmoke)   Standing O   Stetson Kennedy   Summer Teeth   Summer Teeth [Alternate Version] [Hidden Track]   Sunken Treasure   Sunloathe   Sunny Feeling   Taste the Calling   Taste the Ceiling   That's Not the Issue   That's Not The Issue   The Days of Wine and Booze   The Family Gardener   The Joke Explained   The Jolly Banker (Woody Guthrie cover)   The Late Greats   The Late Greats (Live)   The Lonely 1   The Lonely 1 (White Hen Version)   The Lonely One   The Man Who Loves You   The Old Plantation   The Thanks I Get   The Unwelcome Guest   The Wilco Song   Theologians   This Is New   Too Far Apart   Tried And True   Unlikely Japan   Venus Stop The Train   Via Chicago   Via Chicago [Austin Demo]   View from Below   Walk Where He Walked   Walken   Walt Whitman's Niece   Walt Whitman's Niece   War On War   War on War [Album Version]   Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key   We Aren't the World (Safety Girl)   We're Just Friends   We're Just Friends   What Good Am I?   What Light   What's The World Got In Store   What's The World Got In Store   When You Wake Up Feeling Old   Where Do I Begin   Whole Love   Why Would You Wanna Live   Wilco   Wilco (Song)   Wilco (The Song)   Wilco The Song   Wishful Thinking   Won't Let You Down   Won't Let You Down   Woodgrain   You & I   You And I   You Are My Face   You Never Know   You Never Know (single)   You Satellite

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