Grist for the Malady Mill Lyrics

Song	Grist for the Malady Mill
Artist	mewithoutYou
Album	Ten Stories
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	Rabbit fled, best guess, toward home
	Fox & Bear toward Yellowstone
	Walrus, north to the border towns
	Peacock swayed like a reed on the fence a while
	(with a stalwart sense of style!)
	as the policemen’s nets came down
	Word of the crash had spread fast and spread far
	From Clark’s Fork to Blackfoot Reservoir
	more grist for the malady mill
	Shepherd the Southwest wind,
	“railspikes ripped like the seam of a wineskin”
	Shepherd the Northwest rain,
	“Brass Hat slept at the helm of that woeful train…
	Ain’t it an awful shame!
	And don’t it just break your heart to hear of so much,
	to hear of so much pain?”
	Casey Jones walked slow to the prison cell
	His face held hard as a scallop shell
	“Well, I wish I wished you well,
	but your last friend on Earth now calls
	from the silent side of the cemetery walls
	your great cause to the moths and the rust!”
	Fanning her ears with a calm in her eyes
	“It’s the laws of cause and effect that you criticize
	But sir, criticize them you must”
	Three miles more ‘til Flagstaff
	Follow behind signs toward Badger Pass
	Wound like clocks around fretboards
	Carved our hands in our basswood body guitars -
	borrowed guitars (borrowed hands!)
	I’m clearly not as handsome or caring as what you seem to want,
	but I’d gladly walk you home,
	‘cause those streets can be dangerous
	Shepherd the Southwest wind,
	“railspikes ripped like the seam of a wineskin”
	Shepherd the Northwest rain,
	“frog switch slipped and that reckless beast is to blame
	Ain’t it an awful shame!
	And don’t it just break your heart to hear of so much pain?”
	Ain’t it an awful shame!
	And don’t it just break your heart,
	don’t it just break your heart,
	don’t it just break your heart.

	Rabbit fled, best guess, toward home
	Fox Bear toward Yellowstone
	Walrus, north to the border towns
	Peacock swayed like a reed on the fence a while
	with a stalwart sense of style!
	as the policemen' s nets came down
	Word of the crash had spread fast and spread far
	From Clark' s Fork to Blackfoot Reservoir
	more grist for the malady mill
	Shepherd the Southwest wind,
	" railspikes ripped like the seam of a wineskin"
	Shepherd the Northwest rain,
	" Brass Hat slept at the helm of that woeful train
	Ain' t it an awful shame!
	And don' t it just break your heart to hear of so much,
	to hear of so much pain?"
	Casey Jones walked slow to the prison cell
	His face held hard as a scallop shell
	" Well, I wish I wished you well,
	but your last friend on Earth now calls
	from the silent side of the cemetery walls
	your great cause to the moths and the rust!"
	Fanning her ears with a calm in her eyes
	" It' s the laws of cause and effect that you criticize
	But sir, criticize them you must"
	Three miles more ' til Flagstaff
	Follow behind signs toward Badger Pass
	Wound like clocks around fretboards
	Carved our hands in our basswood body guitars
	borrowed guitars borrowed hands!
	I' m clearly not as handsome or caring as what you seem to want,
	but I' d gladly walk you home,
	' cause those streets can be dangerous
	Shepherd the Southwest wind,
	" railspikes ripped like the seam of a wineskin"
	Shepherd the Northwest rain,
	" frog switch slipped and that reckless beast is to blame
	Ain' t it an awful shame!
	And don' t it just break your heart to hear of so much pain?"
	Ain' t it an awful shame!
	And don' t it just break your heart,
	don' t it just break your heart,
	don' t it just break your heart.

	Rabbit fled, best guess, toward home
	Fox Bear toward Yellowstone
	Walrus, north to the border towns
	Peacock swayed like a reed on the fence a while
	with a stalwart sense of style!
	as the policemen' s nets came down
	Word of the crash had spread fast and spread far
	From Clark' s Fork to Blackfoot Reservoir
	more grist for the malady mill
	Shepherd the Southwest wind,
	" railspikes ripped like the seam of a wineskin"
	Shepherd the Northwest rain,
	" Brass Hat slept at the helm of that woeful train
	Ain' t it an awful shame!
	And don' t it just break your heart to hear of so much,
	to hear of so much pain?"
	Casey Jones walked slow to the prison cell
	His face held hard as a scallop shell
	" Well, I wish I wished you well,
	but your last friend on Earth now calls
	from the silent side of the cemetery walls
	your great cause to the moths and the rust!"
	Fanning her ears with a calm in her eyes
	" It' s the laws of cause and effect that you criticize
	But sir, criticize them you must"
	Three miles more ' til Flagstaff
	Follow behind signs toward Badger Pass
	Wound like clocks around fretboards
	Carved our hands in our basswood body guitars
	borrowed guitars borrowed hands!
	I' m clearly not as handsome or caring as what you seem to want,
	but I' d gladly walk you home,
	' cause those streets can be dangerous
	Shepherd the Southwest wind,
	" railspikes ripped like the seam of a wineskin"
	Shepherd the Northwest rain,
	" frog switch slipped and that reckless beast is to blame
	Ain' t it an awful shame!
	And don' t it just break your heart to hear of so much pain?"
	Ain' t it an awful shame!
	And don' t it just break your heart,
	don' t it just break your heart,
	don' t it just break your heart.

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