Black-hearted Boy

Darling black-hearted boy

All the color's gone out of my ribbon loom

As i've only got the worst to assume

Take your sheet metal sheers

Cut a slit up the side of my dark blue dress

For a last time lie your love confess

Get your gut

Some home made twine

String up silk your tiger bow

Don't paint your board

Moonlight white

Go dangle your fishook out in the gutter again

See the smoke from your kiln

Pine boughs burn the bricks dead hard in their fog

As i stand cold with my back broke by the bog

Find your cross cut saw

Come blunt and jagged and dry and try

Cut my tongue out to keep on your wall up high

I tipped my toe

On the bamboo strip

I took stone honey in exchange for my rags

Don't dare paint your board

Moonlight white

Go dangle your fishook out in the gutter again

See the smoke from your kiln

Pine boughs burn the bricks dead hard in their fog

As i stand cold with my back broke by the bog

Find your cross cut saw

Come blunt and jagged and dry and try

Cut my tongue out to keep on your wall up high

I tipped my toe

On the bamboo strip

I took stone honey in exchange for my rags

Don't dare paint your board

Moonlight white

Go dangle your fishook out in the gutter again

Darling black-hearted boy

I went down to wash my robe in the river

I thought of you and started to shake and to shiver

Leaning there on the rocks

I see myself slip down and float

'Til the brackish warm current stops up my throat

You swore you swore you'd never leave

You swore you swore you'd never leave

You swore you swore you'd never leave