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Apple Picking

from Heavens to Betsy by Camellia sinensis

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binding to your crucifix, you've got no cross to bare
as we whisper through the drywall, crying nothing but despair
i can see you in the garden with a flower in your hair
some time ago

remember me my darling like a sailor to the land
as the apple that you've stolen from the branches of my hands
when i'm cut in two and tossed upon the ground on which you stand,
you'll be alone

and riddled now with weariness, you're growing overtired
of the stem and of the blossom of the apple you've desired
and hibernating, dream of all the wealth that you've acquired
all winter long

and waking, you'll be lucky if the sermon you've prepared
(the soliloquies of serpents serve disease in ragged pairs)
can buy us back our love before you no longer seem to care
that you were wrong

as an apple in your hand is worth at least two in the bush
we're sharing now this sovereign where the lost would never look
and if we're counted on to write it down in some forgotten book
we'll watch our backs

and tell the tale of lovers in the garden that we know
naked as the daytime all among the fallen snow
as we were dreaming of temptation, the adults got up to go
cover their tracks

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from Heavens to Betsy, released January 27, 2012

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