take me across that broad and noisy square

take me across that broad and noisy square
across this human marketplace so darling
where bees in buckwheat peace and tired starlings
take me across that broad and noisy square

take me across that broad and noisy square
it breathes laughter, battle cries and  tears
sometimes itself and me it doesn't hear
take me across that broad and noisy square

take me across that broad and noisy square
where i have played and sung all songs i know
i'll enter silence--once i was and then no more
take me across that broad and noisy square

take me across that broad and noisy square
where woman cries--we were together long ago
but now i pass her by and do not know
take me across that broad and noisy square

take me across that broad and noisy square
with all my love and poison's pain and sorrow
here are the days of both my shame and glory
take me across that broad and noisy square

take me across that broad and noisy square
where drunken clouds are pulled to drunken poplar
today that square by my son's song taken over
take me across that broad and noisy square

take me across..the ocean of that square
swung, took him up and led right through the haze--
when finally he fell lifeless and dazed
..there was no field at edge of that broad square