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Clever
Scout MacKay

I’ll leave this town
It’s drowned me out
You’ve got me now
If only for a moment 

I’ll miss your laugh
When I buy gas
As I look back
Remembering this moment

But you say

I thought that we 
Were birds of a feather
Doesn’t that mean 
We should fly together
Being with you
I’ve never felt better
We’ll, we’ve got to be clever

The road is long
I don’t belong
Nowhere but my own songs
They only last a moment

Let’s make believe
Another dream
A change of scenes 
If only for a moment

I guess you’re right
We’re birds of a feather
You bet, that means we should stick together
If you can’t find me
When I’m under the weather
You’ve got to be clever

No money saved
Such little pay
We’ll be okay
It’s only for a moment

My clothes are torn
My shoes are worn
You’re body’s warm
Give me one more moment

Baby come be
My bird of a feather
Fly me so high
We’ve never felt better
Tell me our wings
Never will sever
You’ve just got to be clever

Clever

Elizabeth Went to Bed
Scout MacKay

He’s an eye for an eye man
Eyes for eyes, teeth for teeth
He isn’t much to look at
He lost his charm smiling

I stacked up my pillows
I made up my bed to feel like
Sleeping with him
I slept in past breakfast
Hungrier to remember him

I used to love him

Elizabeth went to bed
Elizabeth went to bed with my old lover
I know the way he tastes 
And I memorized his shape
Under the covers
I woke up upside-down
The weather high
Feeling under
And I would take him back
If it weren’t for the fact
He kept her number

I’m an eye to eye girl
Meet my eyes
Let it go
I made up my own country
Flying flags, laying love
I live like a guerilla 
Safe at night with my gun
And I’m not much to look at
Camouflaged, brave and young
I used to love him

Elizabeth went to bed
Elizabeth went to bed with my old lover
I know the way he tastes 
And I memorized his shape
Under the covers
I woke up upside-down
The weather high
Feeling under
And I would take him back
If it weren’t for the fact
He kept her number

He’s an eye for an eye man
Eyes for eyes, teeth for teeth

Elizabeth Went To Bed

Tracks
Scout MacKay

I’ll ask the engine where to go
Coal colored train, December snow
She says the answers in her tracks:
Go back, go back

Is every mother’s suicide
To wrap her breast, to close her eyes
I told my own id’d be alright
Go back, go back

Home

Home is a cabin in the pines
I slept there once and through the night
I heard the disappearing sound
Of getting lost and being found

Go back, go back

Back home a river (cuts) my dreams
To wash the wounds she gave to me
Here I’m politically distressed
Under a Communist’s thin dress

Go back, go back

Home

Listen, the disappearing sound
That getting lost is being found

Tracks (Go Back Home)

White Flag

Flies

Hardly Sleeping

Inside I've an apple seed, the one that Adam robbed from Eve. And from it grows my poetry, the sweetness of simplicity.

Scout MacKay

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