you’re the only secondary salmon nation under the sun / on the edge of all creation / handsome homestead without a gun / sun sets I have no memory / of the places we’ve sung / stacking stones with our enemies / they call us to the cellar one by one / you’re the only secondary salmon nation under the sun / on the edge of fields of granite / seas of grasses / a band undone / and in the flash of the firelight wrapped in blankets we made / when the last lonely embers died they put us all to bed and stole away / you’re alight / you’re alight / our tongues were never tied / the church keys and the ditch weed kept it sanctified / you’re alight / and when you took off for that razor town, well, something in me died / cupping clouds of fireflies / built a home for fireflies / found a name for fireflies
