These are the longing words
of life and death that timeless sing,
sing around the glowing campfire,
echo out from the smoking bar Blues,
these words of life and death
that everyone sure remembers
and everyone then forgets too soon.

And they sing of different times,
but still the same, still the insane
darkness that lies hidden in pain,
and comes out, yes comes out
in the words of life and death,
in the song from history and today.

And the singing continues across
country, through the rubble
of war, in quite dusty spaces, in the
sweat of the fields and the graves of those
who knew nothing more than to die.

These are the words of life and death
that sing for generations, across eons,
in birth cries and quiet bedside vigils and
in passion that drives us to live in this
place we are thrown to hear the song.

Here now, stop, and listen to the words
that sing of all that has been and ever
will be true, and learn about life and death
and what comes to pass will pass as
the singing goes until death do us part.

 

3/4/2026