Dust to Dust Blues

White girl, white girl, get loose get loose
I got those ashes to ashes dust to dust blues
Help me with this feeling that I just can't lose
White girl you know I'm counting on you, counting on you

Ashes to ashes, aw we're cookin' for awhile
Then we all fall down in separate piles
Ain't that a drag, to have to contemplate?
So shake it once for love, and once for hate, aw yeah

White girl, white girl you got those freckles on your nose
But you roll those hips, like a Spanish Rose
Naw I have not been done the way you do me, Mama,
Roll 'em for the day you gonna say you never knew me, yeah

Roll 'em for the capers between the womens and the mens
Strangers to lovers to strangers again
For all those catastrophes up around the bend
Roll 'em for the difference between now and then, yeah

Shadows of birds, shadows of planes
Invisible lines through sunny days
Nothing no good ever could remain
Oh my darlin' Clementine…
We are lost and gone forever -
But the moving feels fine

Roll 'em for the day when everything's gonna explode
Roll 'em for my heart and it's heavy heavy load
Roll 'em for the trespasses you won't forgive
Roll 'em for the love you ain't got to give
Roll 'em for the beauty you ain't never gonna see -
I'm talking 'bout birds flying from a linden tree
Scattered by the slamming of a back door screen
On July 25th, 3003
Roll 'em roll 'em for this band, they just got one more song
We'll be shuffling through the door before too long
Then it's out on the avenue all wet with rain -
And everything's gonna be everywhere again, aw yeah