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A Saint's Complaint

John Gorka

Company You Keep

I didn't want to know

I liked the towns, I liked the people
But the brown bugs in my bed
I could've done without
I liked the taconite, the slate

The Bachelor and the Bride

The Decemberists

A Practical Handbook

2007

tonight.
No, I will box your ears 
And leave you here stripped bare."

Hear the corncrakes and the deerhooves
And the sleet rain on the slate roof

Timeless Skies

Al Stewart

Time Passages

1978

down from the tracks
To the grey slate roofs

I watched the village moving
As the day went slowly by
In the field we lay here
Lovers' footsteps

it a try

I hear your feet on my old slate roof
I'll stay in bed, no I don't need proof
Let me hold on to the magic
Now close your eyes my sweet

Be With You

Chumbawamba

UN

2004

The future glints like the moon on an old slate roof
And everything you say sounds like the truth
The things you did made half my dreams come true

Among the red bricks
Smokestacks and slate roofs
I slept in the cathedral
And dreamed of you
"At the dinner hour
I maundered with the crows"

it's Tom and Jerry
Cleanest slate the roof of a ruler cooler than Caspar's breath
Ignite'd Jean Grey aroma revitalize me from a coma
Cold sweats in

Against the Sky

Vashti Bunyan

Lookaftering

2005

the sky
An elegant surrender
It broke the wall and bent the gate
And warmed us through the winter

Whatever pulls the wind tonight
Will have the roof

Drunken Boat

The Pogues

Waiting for Herb

1993

The wind was whipping shingle through the windows in the town
A hail of stones across the roof, the slates came raining down
A blade of light upon

Blue slate on the roof where pigeons 
Walk. Between walls
Dust and the furious nightlife
Of spiders. In the room
Under the roof we venture
Alone upon

The wind was whipping shingle through the windows in the town
A hail of stones across the roof, the slates came raining down
A blade of light upon

A child's eyes
Aglow in surprise
The hallway's full of glitter
Now dear Santa's wandered by

A child's ears
Perked up in fear
Footsteps on the roof

Hooray, she said, it looks like rain
From the dark backdrop of grey roof slate
We behave like waves
Heaving up and down, water's to tame
And that's

to me
But it's different in your company
Say the word and I'll take the lead
Under my roof your slate stays clean
Take your top off
Time to pop off
When

herself again
Behind the numbèd pane
To watch the plaster sky, the glassy roofs
The slates and chimney-cowls abare
All silent in the snowy air

followed by bluebells too
The cottage roof, grey slate tile
Sketch it first, it takes a while
Birds of colour, perched so high
I need to frame them before

walk
Cross the line
And end up in that sidewalk chalk
Sorry
Don't mean to threaten
I'm just covering base
Most of this over your head
Like that roof

of the tallest trees 
So much fun in the summertime 
They land and break their knees 

Can you see the buildings fall 
They're landing at your feet 
Slates are

I made a new slate
No I cannot fuck with that slut now, I got a new bae
You know I'm the goat, I give my chick expensive birthdays
Yeah, huh, I'm

They keep dragging my name like they get paid for it
Trynna push through
I gotta wait for it
Done lotta wrong
Ain't gotta clean slate on it
Rap my

When I meditate, I wipe my slate clean
And I get up and I go chase dreams
Elevate and I'm still with the same team, yeah
All my levels are straight

me paint pictures
You my brother then we on the same mission
Hop out the car with no roof yea the brain missing
Feeling so dark but she want me

Lookin back on yesterday
Saw you quite unhappy
Maybe I could grant you this
Let me ask you one good question
Whatcha gonna do when the roof comes

room
Fallin' for you like raindrops on a roof


You're there, caught up, give it to me straight
I'm here, unfair, giving you my clean slate


Undivided,