Red cabin
Red dusk
Red chair sitting in the last of the sun
Baby
Watchin' the screen blow in and the hummingbirds swarm?
The lake goes silver
The sailboats lean
The fire escape's made of wood
Upstairs window waving green
To a throat too full to sing any good
In a shake of a tail
Another year will be over
Feels like it's just been a spring and a summer
Baby
Watchin' the sun spread thick on the worn out lawn
On the blue and the beat up dock
By the curl of the bay when the suds spread out
On Earth
Who could fish out a shinier haul?
In the summer sun with the days so long
The next catch seems like a long time comin'
You don't gotta say what's troubling you
Honey
All my thinking back has been
Strung between two tall trees
Some kind of language we learned in the country
Grapes filled with a million seeds each
The wasp along a wooded walk
By the pump house overgrown
Baby
Does the day feel long?
Outgoing with a brown leg and a beautiful gun
Say
"Land ho!" from you lip's fine boat
And a barnacle of teeth below
Baby
Does the day feel long?
When you can barely see the shoreline
From the ships top crow?
So you say
"Hey can you hear me?
My land
Come near me!
My love
My song
Don't leave me alone!"
And the day feels long when the fog lifts
To show the mountains and to show
A red cabin in a red red dusk
A red chair sitting in the last of the sun
Baby
Even after it's dark and day is already gone?