Barn Song

Kids don't learn to write their cursive letters here anymore

Fingers more than nimble

And recall's in the frost

Oh all these schools of lisping children

Singing rhymes to their dad

What of words in cracked communion

Noble

Silent

And bare

Come apart like needles

And we don't know the names of

All these trees up on the island

Don't they just look the same

Why don't you ever look up to the sky

Windows are shuttered

You cover your eye

Don't see a reason for keeping in time

What of films of Joseph Cotten

Angles shot from on high

None of us remembers the details of the plot

But

We found black and white romantic

Now you're left with the thought

Why don't you ever look up to the sky

Windows are shuttered

You cover your eye

Don't see a reason for keeping in time

You're always distracted

The devil in signs