Ballad of the Absent Mare (Cohen Leonard)

		
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Say a prayer for the cowboy, his mare's run away  
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And he'll walk till he finds her, his darling, his stray  
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But the river's in flood and the roads are awash  
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And the bridges break up in the panic of loss  
 
And there's nothing to follow, there's nowhere to go  
She's gone like the summer, gone like the snow  
And the crickets are breaking his heart with their song  
As the day caves in and the night is all wrong  
 
Did he dream, was it she who went galloping past  
And bent down the fern and broke open the grass  
And printed the mud with the iron and the gold  
That he nailed to her feet when he was the lord  
 
And although she goes grazing a minute away  
He tracks her all night and he tracks her all day  
Oh blind to her presence except to compare  
His injury here with her punishment there  
 
Then at home on his branch in the highest tree  
A songbird sings out so suddenly  
Oh the sun is warm and the soft winds ride  
On the willow trees by the riverside  
 
Oh the world is sweet and the world is wide  
And she's there where the light and the darkness divide  
And the steam's coming off her, she's huge and she's shy  
And she steps on the moon when she paws at the sky  
 
And she comes to his hand but she's not really tame  
She longs to be lost and he longs for the same  
And she'll bolt and she'll plunge through the first open pass  
To roll and to feed in the sweet mountain grass  
 
Or she'll make a break for the high plateau  
Where there's nothing above and there's nothing below  
And it's time for their burden, it's time for the whip  
Will she walk through the flame, can he shoot from the hip  
 
So he binds himself to the galloping mare  
And she binds herself to the rider there  
And there is no space but there's left and right  
And there is no time but there's day and night  
 
And he leans on her neck and he whispers low  
Wither thou goest, I will go  
And they turn as one and they head for the plain  
No need for the whip, no need for the rein  
 
Now the clasp of this union who fastens it tight  
Who snaps it asunder the very next night  
Some say the rider, some say the mare  
Or that love's like the smoke, beyond all repair  
 
But my darling says, Leonard, just let it go by  
That old silhouette on the great Western sky  
So I pick out a tune and they move right along  
And they're gone like the smoke and they're gone like this song  
 
 
 
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