Lyrics: Congratulations

Everyone
It's not a paid vacation
Your sons and daughters
Are sitting? setting? fishes down at the station
The tide may seem to swell when all is well
But they still....[muffled-ish]

Out with the weapons
It's not a blaze of glory
You look down from the temples
Pull it together? and make it a story

Tears on marble something something
It was always lost
It was never heard

I've been sold to make me poise
But you don't know how the money's spent
To break my stays and draw my lines
So I can't tell what's really there
And all I need's a great big congratulations

We'll keep the trail warm
Pay attention for me
As strange as it seems, I'd rather dissolve
Than have you ignore me
If God made the looming plans go
I tried my best to ignore that (bad land? muffled bit)

The difference is clear
You throw in an apology
Rest in the new year (?)
Dusky dawns always been ...something�
It started the simple stop of (?)
All the ways they sought to tame me

It turned your luck into a mistress
It kept on coming back a smile
You seen my face at half past guilt
And lay down the quilts upon the lawn
Spread my arms -
A circle of congratulations