Owen's Lament Lyrics - Singles - Augie March

Level your fretting. 

I won't be forgetting 

The flush of your face 

When I lifted you level 

To me and a wattle tree 

Framed your body 

In whispers welling with 

The dope of a new Spring 

You said "Kill me a dynasty 

Or our love won't mean a thing..." 

A bullet for a diamond ring 

A favor promised 

A promise delivered 

And more to you 

It's only a war I'll be back 

To your shore before 

You know it I'm gone, 

Then I'll cover you body 

And if you have to go 

Please go lightly 

Keep it to a foxtrot 

Whether he's a fox or not 

Keep it cold, 

Keep all your heat for me 

I'll be needing it 

For when I'm cold you see 

Let your children 

Remind you of me 

Whether by another or 

By the ghost in me in you 

There goes my baby 

I would think of you 

And a palmtree would 

Cover your body 

You... in love and war 

We are bound by a law, 

It goes to you and then 

To yours to recover my body 

She bound me up and hugged me 

'O how the mother loves thee' 

She covered my body 

In a ragged flag and bloody 

O not on your life.