Sadie   White coat   You carry me home   And bury this bone    And take this pinecone      Bury this bone   To gnaw on it later, gnawing on the telephone   And 'till then, we pray and suspend   The notion that these lives do never end      And all day long we talk about mercy   Lead me to water Lord, I sure am thirsty   Down in the ditch where I nearly served you   Up in the clouds where he almost heard you      And all that we built   And all that we breathed   And all that we spilt   Or pulled up like weeds   Is piled up in back   And it burns irrevocably      And we spoke up in turns   'Till the silence crept over me      And bless you   And I deeply do   No longer resolute   Oh, and I call to you      But the water go so cold   And you do lose    What you don't hold      This is an old song   These are old blues   And this is not my tune   But it's mine to use   And the seabirds   Where the fear once grew   Will flock with a fury   And they will bury   What'd come for you      And down where I darn with the milk-eyed mender   You and I, and a love so tender   Stretched-on the hoop where I stitch-this addage   "Bless our house and its heart so savage."      And all that I want   And all that I need   And all that I got   Is scattered like seed   And all that I knew   Is moving away from me      And all that I know   Is blowing like tumbleweed      And the mealy worms   In the brine will burn   In a salty pyre   Among the fauns and ferns      And the love we hold   And the love we spurn   Will never grow cold   Oh, only taciturn      And I'll tell you tomorrow   Oh Sadie, go on home now   And bless those who've sickened below   And bless us who have chosen so      And all that I got   And all that I need   I tie in a knot   And I lay at your feet   And I have not forgot   But a silence crept over me      So dig up your bone   Exhume your pinecone, Sadie