Written by Angela Faye Martin
LYRICS
Adieu Mr Higginson
My last days are through
Farewell to all your legions
That dirt of the daisy
To your oceans blue
Leave them to wonder
Why I was one to capitalize
And why my visage
Evaded their eyes
They can look on my garden
With recognition I didn’t know
When you get all my papers
Know the queen of Calvary was riding solo
Slate gray and a lithium white
Slant of light through the clouds
These are the kind of things that I write
Called back in marble
Isn’t what it should’ve said
The quill was intact
When October fell
From the seed head
Heliotrope and gentian
What I said about religion
Flapping bats and Gottschalk
The carnivals and cakewalks
Farewell my family
The munitions the coats of lead
I’ll go out one
Emily Dickinson instead
Slate gray and a lithium white
Slant of light through the clouds
These are the kind of things that I write
CREDITS
Angela Faye Martin: Voice, acoustic guitar
Mark Linkous: Keyboards, spanish guitar
PRODUCTION
Produced and engineered by Mark Linkous at Static King
Mastered by Ryan Laurie at REL Recording