Dead Moon

dead moon tonight
I saw his black tongue
and it was salamander-shaped.
Oh, it moved like a nightcrawler
and I was struck,
was overcome, boys and girls.
I had never seen
the likes of it, binoculars
I need it farther
I turned them back
once I did then I saw
how the most lonesome crow does not call
where did I go
where did I go
where did I go wrong?
I don’t even know
I don’t even know
what I lost and now it’s gone
what I lost and now it’s gone
where did I go
where did I go
where did I go wrong?
I don’t even know
I don’t even know
what I lost and now it’s gone
what I lost and now it’s gone
gone, gone
gone like the highway crow
when the cars come, the cars come
dead moon tonight
I slid under his thumb,
and he, he called me whistle bait
it hurt me
I hollered till the trees shook birds
from the branches there, boys and girls
I had never seen
such a lot of them ever before
blocking the starlight
darker than dark, it was
and I cried for the loss
when one bird doesn’t turn, does the flock?
where did I go
where did I go
where did I go wrong?
I don’t even know
I don’t even know
what I lost and now it’s gone
what I lost and now it’s gone
where did I go
where did I go
where did I go wrong?
I don’t even know
I don’t even know
what I lost and now it’s gone
what I lost and now it’s gone
gone, gone
gone like the highway crow
when the cars come, the cars come