Harper Road - Mark Kozelek

Blackberries ripe on the branches

Her skin is burning, she bends to pick them

Take a deep delicious bite

For our aching stomachs we delight

Sorrow came in floods this April

Without reason or forewarning

We’re now in May, June, and July

Don’t leave my love, don’t leave my side

Brighter than moonlight glows

My love does for you

In dreams of Harper Road

I’ll always find you stretched out like an orange tabby

And on the porch with ferns surrounding her

And there in breaths she’ll take not often

There her heart troubles sadly soften

Wild oaks spare the deadliest drought

Like a mother’s will it snuffs out

And any flame comes round it breathes in

And she’ll endure the driest season

My blood runs through my only daughter

Her eyes are mine, so wide with wonder

Be my voice, my light, my power

Be with me in my leaving hour

Brighter than the moonlight glows

My love does for you

In dreams of Harper Road

I’ll always find you