Pox

A pox, a pox, upon this ground I'd give it up just to burn it down And if they die here, you can blame it on me I've been setting up gravestones in my hometown I wish I had been born at sea Then you wouldn't care and you wouldn't know me Ebb and flow, they just won't carry me home It's only water and air, as far as I can see There was a time when you would let me know Because your words weren't taken by your indigo And I could write it all down in a matter of lines To read back what we had from a previous time My ancestral passage here Was writtеn down each year by year But thе map is too old, see, they've forgotten the roads And so we're living by the creases A pox, a pox, upon this ground I'd give it up just to burn it down And if they die here, you can blame it on me I've been setting up gravestones in my hometown I wish I had been born at sea Then you wouldn't care and you wouldn't know me Ebb and flow, they just won't carry me home It's only water and air, as far as I can see