"So I raise a morphine toast to you all. And if you should happen to remember it is the anniversary of my birth, remember that you were loved by me and that you made my life a happy one. And there is no tragedy in that."

follow you down to the red oak tree
as the air moves thick through the hollow reeds
i will wait for you there until [bad word] to carry me, carry me down

see i have not i have not grown cold
i have stole from men who have stole from those
with their arms so thin and their skin so old
but you are young, you are young, you are young

then somebody laughs like it’s all just for [bad word] as though we could not be saved from the depth of the well
but the cloth that i make is a cloth you can sell
to pay for the gossamer seed

names get carved in the red oak tree
of the ones who stay and the ones who leave
i will wait for you there with these cindered bones
so follow me follow me down
follow me follow me down
follow me follow me down
follow me follow me down