Butchered Tongue

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1. As a child, it was the place names
2. Singin' at me as the first thing
3. How the mouth must be employed in every corner of itself
4. To say "Appalacicola" or "Hushpukena, " like "Gweebarra"
5. A promise softly sung of somewhere else
6. And as a young man, blessed to pass so many road signs
7. And have my foreign ear made fresh again on each unlikely sound
8. But feel at home, hearin' a music that few still understand
9. A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground
10. The ears were chopped from young men if the pitch cap didn't kill them
11. They are buried without scalp in the shattered bedrock of our home
12. You may never know your fortune
13. Until the distance has been shown between what is lost forever
14. And what can still be known
15. So far from home to have a stranger call you, "Darling"
16. And have your guarded heart be lifted like a child up by the hand
17. In some town that just means "Home" to them
18. With no translator left to sound
19. A butchered tongue still singin' here above the ground