[00:00.353]Allelu, allelu:
[00:10.723]I have died happy
[00:13.962]And lived to tell the tale to you
[00:22.374]I have slept for forty years
[00:25.717]And woke to find me gone
[00:33.868]I woke safe and warm in your arms
[00:39.850]In your arms, your arms
[00:48.888]In your arms
[00:54.766]Not informed of the natural law
[01:04.379]Squatting, lordly, on a stool, in a stall
[01:10.465]We spun gold clear out of straw
[01:15.507]And, when our bales of bullion
[01:20.104]Were stored
[01:21.332]You burned me like a barn
[01:26.687]I burned safe and warm in your arms
[01:32.251]In your arms, your arms
[01:42.596]I'm afraid of the Big Return
[01:49.048]There's a certain conversation lost
[01:53.306]And that loss incurred
[01:58.870]With nobody remaining
[02:00.699]To register who had passed this way
[02:08.196]In the night
[02:09.815]In the middle of the night
[02:12.428](negating their grace and their sight)
[02:19.820]Till only I remember, or mark
[02:23.060]How we had our talk:
[02:28.911]We took our ride
[02:34.031]So that there was no-one home
[02:37.348]And the lights of Rome
[02:40.248]Flickered and died
[02:45.185]And, what's more
[02:46.308]I believe that you knew it, too;
[02:51.089]I think you saw their flares
[02:56.000]And kept me safely unawares
[03:02.713]In your arms
[03:07.833]Your arms, in your arms
[03:16.114]The grass was tall, and strung with burrs
[03:26.511]I essayed that high sashay which
[03:29.515]In my mind, was my way;
[03:32.049]You hung behind, in yours
[03:37.247]Anyhow, she did not neigh
[03:40.304]I do not know
[03:42.968]What drew our eyes to hers;
[03:48.428]That little black mare did not stir
[03:53.992]Till I lay down in your arms
[04:03.291]Poor old dirty little dog-size horse!
[04:10.031]Swaying and wheezing
[04:14.994]As a matter of course;
[04:19.722]Swaying and wheezing
[04:23.275]As a matter of pride
[04:27.220]That poor old nag, not four palms wide
[04:33.280]Had waited a long time
[04:40.307]Coated in salt
[04:43.259]Buckled like a ship run foul of the fence
[04:50.860]And in the middle of the night
[04:53.473]She'd sprung up
[04:55.980]No provenance
[05:00.970]Bearing the whites of her eyes
[05:05.620]And you, with your
[05:08.519]'arrangement' with Fate
[05:10.740]Nodded sadly at her lame assault
[05:15.807]On that steady old gate
[05:20.692]Her faultlessly etiolated fishbelly-face;
[05:30.331]The muzzle of a ghost
[05:35.007]And, pretty Johnny Appleseed
[05:38.429]Via satellite feed
[05:40.545]Tell us, who was it
[05:42.792]That you then loved the most?
[05:45.691]Pretty Johnny Appleseed
[05:48.852]Leave a trail that leads
[05:51.752]Straight back down to the farm
[05:56.480]Lay me down
[05:57.551]Safe and warm in your arms
[06:01.966]In your arms
[06:13.825]