Maps Of You

Written in 2002. Will record this summer for the next CD.

Maps of You

As the bulldozers left
We found a comb inside a shoe
The kids played on the rubble
An ambulance came for you

There seemed to be no warning
You were crouching in the gap
‘Tween lines that had never moved
On your childhood map

I looked into your dead eyes
There were crescents colored green
There were floating stars of david
There were places you had been

Red crosses and green crescents
And sirens too
Red crosses and green crescents
And maps of forgotten lessons

I looked into your dead eyes
They lay open like an atlas
With ripped out pages
Lying next to your shoe