Midnight Directives - Owen Pallett

Cross her off the shortlist
My blood is a red-winged bird
The way will be lit by the bridges we burn oh
And come tornado
Carry me away from the croft
Ruffle my hair bear my body aloft oh
As the cutlass came down on a Saturday night
Left an un-planted field left my daughter and wife
Called away into service for a clerical life
Left an un-planted field left my daughter and wife
Thought I was a sad-boy
Now I know I know I know I was wrong
Since you came along I can see how content I had been
It'll drive a man crazy to age from the outside in
But I have a plan it's a trick with a prick of a pin
And as the cutlass came down on a Saturday night
Left an un-planted field left my daughter and wife
Called away into service for a clerical life
Left an un-planted field left my daughter and wife
For a man can be bought and a man can be sold
And the price of a hundred thousand unwatered souls
Is a bit of meat and a bit of coal
It's a bit of meat and a bit of coal
It's a little bit of meat and coal