Love and Irritations

Sawdust

I worked my fingers to their bones

Sawing wood so that you could stay warm

Until I returned from my time away

Please recall those vows we both swore...

I tore up the countryside

Searching for the thickest tree trunks

Until I returned from overseas land

Saving the remnants of what we planned...

Oh how we had plans:

I'm coming home to keep you safe

I'm coming home to protect our love

I will lay waste to whatever gets in my way

I will fire, reload, push and shove

The forest knows my story too well

The birds have surveyed what was crushed

So many terrible woes, so many lopped off toes

While you were at home making sawdust.

Open your eyes to what has happened

Open your heart to our crushed dreams

Just because I was over there

Did not mean that all was as it seemed

Pour me a stiff one, let me tell you a tale

About how I survived on the memory of us

It rained and it poured and I felt so sore

While you were at home making sawdust.

It rained and it poured and I recalled the vows we swore

While you at home making sawdust.

Refrain from acting rash

You are better off to listen

To what I have to describe

About the sunshine that glistened

Open up your soul to my memory

Open up your heart to our crushed dreams

Hear me now, I am home at last

Carried here by God's sunbeam

I was thinking of you non-stop

While you were at home near the cove

I was crying to myself in the dark

While you danced around the woodstove

I shivered and stuttered and 

Hid while I blubbered

About the fact that I was away

While you were at home making sawdust.

Now all the wood's gone,

The heat has been used

I feel so cold inside

Whatever I do, I lose

Tough for me to know

That what we had went bust

While I was giving my all

And you were making sawdust.