Wilco - Remember The Mountain Bed lyrics

Do you still sing of the mountain bed
We made of limbs and leaves?
Do you still sigh there near the
Sky where the holly berry bleeds?
You laughed as I covered you over with leaves
Face, breast, hips, and thighs
You smiled when I said the leaves were
Just the color of your eyes

Rosin smells and turpentine smells
From eucalyptus and pine
Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed
Where tangled wood vines twine
Trees held us in on all four sides
So thick we could not see
I could not see any wrong in you
And you saw none in me

Your arm was brown against the ground
Your cheeks part of the sky
Your fingers played with grassy moss
As limber you did lie
Your stomach moved beneath your shirt and
Your knees were in the air
Your feet played games with mountain roots
As you lay thinking there

Below us the trees grew clumps of
Trees, raised families of trees, and they
As proud as we tossed their heads in
The wind and flung good seeds away
The sun was hot and the sun was
Bright down in the valley below
Where people starved and hungry for life
So empty come and go

There in the shade and hid from the
Sun we freed our minds and learned
Our greatest reason for being here
Our bodies moved and burned
There on our mountain bed of leaves
We learned life's reason why
The people laugh and love
And dream, they fight, they hate to die

The smell of your hair I know is still there
If most of our leaves are blown
Our words still ring in the brush and
The trees where singing seeds are sown
Your shape and form is dim but plain
There on our mountain bed
I see my life was brightest where
You laughed and laid your head

I learned the reason why man must work
And how to dream big dreams
To conquer time and space and fight
The rivers and the seas
I stand here filled with my emptiness now
And look at city and land
And I know why farms and cities
Are built by hot, warm, nervous hands

I crossed many states just to stand here now
My face all hot with tears
I crossed city, and valley
Desert, and stream, to bring my body here
My history and future blaze bright in me
And all my joy and pain
Go through my head on our mountain bed
Where I smell your hair again

All this day long I linger here
And on in through the night
My greeds, desires, my cravings, hopes
My dreams inside me fight:
My loneliness healed, my emptiness filled
I walk above all pain
Back to the breast of my woman and
Child to scatter my seeds again