50 Pieces - Andrew Bird

You’ve been away for such a long, long time

Gone from the brickyard, gone from the mine

All these unfamiliar places used to find your measured paces

Now it’s all arriving, now it’s all just fine

I thought perhaps we could sit down for tea

Nein, was the cold reply of Frau ecstasy

Sitting on a mossy stump, among all the bottles drunk, breathe cold against the

air

Oh I smell your ragweed hair, smoked to the bone, soaked to the bone I’m all

alone, poor me

I thought perhaps we could sit down for tea

Nein, was the cold reply of Frau ecstasy

Hey, who’s that old man in the overalls,

His cows lick the ice from off the stable walls

Hey, who’s that old man in the overalls,

His cows licked the ice from off the stable walls