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Upon The Saw

from Far From Here by David Ross Macdonald

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Upon The Saw (words & music David Ross Macdonald

Silent where the lake logs lie, waiting for the saw
A secret and a soul to keep until
Ten Old Forest dam is drained creosote to sea
Logs will split and she will be undone, but far from here

Waiting for the saw

Stomach knots as burled as her fathers fists
Broken mill town drifting past her now
Gutted like the strip mall shops that fell upon hard times
She draws that line upon the misting glass, and she escapes

She escapes the town but not the saw

Upon the saw and through an age
We divide and twice again
Flooded forest sleeping in the lake
Against our will against the grain
Against the mighty saw again
Upon that line we float beneath we wait

Waiting for the saw

Ceder oak nor rosewood
It fears or favours none
Eye to tooth, tooth to blade then dust
Jack Cash steel blind as faith
This jagged spinning wheel
Part we must she whispered hard
But with a softer heart

Upon the saw and through an age
We divide and twice again
Flooded forest sleeping in the lake
Against our will against the grain
Against the mighty saw again
Upon that line we float beneath we wait

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from Far From Here, released January 1, 2004

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