MewithoutYou, Amy Carrigan - Elephant In The Dock lyrics

Pillory stocks at the gallows tree dock
The crowd grew impatient as
The clouds threatened rain
Elephant arrived at the Constable's side
With her trunk locked in shackles
And her ankles in chains

"All rise, all rise, his Honor presides"
The Judge took the bench to
The village brass cavalcade
Elephant refused to swear the oath
Said "I don't know anything about truth
But, I know falsehood when I see it
And it looks like this
Whole world you've made"

Good of our chaplain to sail Kalispell Bay
And now down on his marrow for
This old fool to pray
"Lord, for sixty-some years I'd
Surrendered my love to emblems of kindness
And not the kindness they were emblems of
Trammels and rings
With the strength of old strings
And some hobble skirt spring
By the old problem caught
Children, sometimes I think all our
Thoughts are just things
And then sometimes think things
Are just thoughts" and the rabble rang

"Hang the Elephant must hang
The Elephant must hang!
Hang the Elephant must hang
The Elephant must hang!"

"A thirteen coil knot for the samovar pot!
Scottish Oatcakes in haversacks each
To it's grave
This mock trial can no more determine my lot
Than can driftwood determine
The ocean's waves
Brandish your ropes and your boards
And your basket-hilt swords
But what is there can punish
Like a conscience ignored?
Yes, my body did just as you implied
While some ghost we'll call 'I'
Idly watched through it's eyes"
And the jury sang

"Hang the Elephant must hang
The Elephant must hang!
Hang the Elephant must hang
The Elephant must hang!"
"Hang the Elephant must hang
The Elephant must hang!
Hang the Elephant must hang
The Elephant must hang!"

I feel it stealing now
I feel it stealing now
I feel it stealing now
All adrift fathoms down