Grass Widows

We found each other blown between the trees

Waning moons wanting to be swallowed by the sea

Like we finally saw the colors of the world

We grew the garden snake within the weeds

Laid each other long across a flat backstreet

Like we finally saw the colors of the world

We felt the sun leave us for the west

Little lips always folding farther from the breast

Like we finally saw the colors of the world

We ran a white flag up the mast

Puckered up like a widow dreaming in the grass

Like we finally saw the colors of the world

Like we saw black

Like we saw black and blue

You pressed a pillow full of snow on my bruise

Like we saw black

Like we saw God green too

You saw it awful but it's over too soon

Like we saw black

Running around red ripe vines

I find you in the folds of lonely red night

Like we saw black

Lying in golden white

Lonely so you tried to love me alright

We threw our money to the river stones

Led each other through the woods to wander back alone

Like we finally saw the colors of the world

We let the taste linger in the mouth

South Chicago never gave us more to sing about

Like we finally saw the colors of the world