Old Magic - Mariee Sioux

Oh we lost be old magic

Even tragic could not be a child to this

And when dolphins sink like stones

We will know that everyone’s reached a higher heaven

For I have seen through your dear dear soul

All in gowns of velvety brown and fawn fire

And I wanna make the run with the coho

Up a dying river going ho-home

To a higher heaven

And I have seen you watching him

Metal and black powder

Elk teeth of ivory

The pounding of leather

Old coins in his eyes

And ever magic hands

Constellation skin

I have seen you watching him

Watching him

And we ran through the mule shadows

Hand in hand

Sorrows in sorrows

Chased by plastic deer and tarp spirits

Tripping over tools and sleeping bullets

Years of dusty praying

You picked a pouch off of your dad’s tree

Poured it in my mouth to show me

How he’d saved all of your baby teeth

You said special fears they always win

Like a river been robbed of it’s bend

A braid you just don’t want end

And a snake who know’s he’ll never stand

Fingers that can’t find their hand

A bead you just can’t seem to strand

Oh don’t you know that feeling?

Like someones been stealing all of your kindling?

So you taught the stones to talk

On the fawn fired path you walk

You taught the flames to talk

On the fawn fired path you walk

You taught the stones to talk

On the fawn fired path you walk

You taught the flames to talk

On the fawn fired path you walk

Walk with him