Why, not even a rustler'd have anything to do With this branded bum-steer world This pirate flag headlong disaster course vessel Misguided charted this nautical numbskull hull Sink in silence smoke – blow your chest out in hope Sits spread-eagle on poor men Piled high on truth mountain – last peak in clarity's chain You'll not be thrown but dive and sink Your pockets filled with earthly burdens (This is the host, the ghost, the most holy-o) When they could be filled with light and back with wings (This is the host, the ghost, the most holy-o) The sky is dark in daytime (This is the host, the ghost, the most holy-o) And still the blackbird's beauty lyrics clean (This is the host, the ghost, the most holy-o) Sing ye brothers and end this miserable thing And brush the dark sky in light And let the moon bell crack and ring Upon the mast of mercy For she is a beautiful thing I watched her cut with clarity The sea of Satan's red rolling patron waters That stung my eyes with vile vile brine And clung to the vine that choked Mary's only son God in vain to slaughter I can't darken your dark cross door no more The light lovely one with the nothing door And oh, that pours life water This is a toast, to the ghost, the host This is a toast to the most holiest ghost This is a toast, to the ghost, the most holy-o This is a toast, to the ghost, the host