Two Tongues

Can you tell us the place where the elders chew
 the sky soft? The place where love is like a perfectly
 quelled arrow flown from bows of pure willow
 And under the thundering roll of ghost buffalo
 Can't you hear the world's heart breaking?
 For it's a test of courage to kiss the snake tongued
 people, the fork tongued people
 Yes, it's a test of courage to kiss the snake tongued
 people, the fork tongued people
 'Cause it's like two tongues at one time
 It's like two tongues at one time
 It's like two tongues at one time
 Like bitter spirits and sweet wine
 Like two tongues at one time, at one time
 So pour all of your souls like magma into the caverns
 Pour all of your souls like magma into the caverns
 Pour them all for the hauntings
 Pour them all for the hauntings
 Cool down for the hauntings and harden for the
 hauntings
 Now granite soul you're a haunter
 A haunter hunting the children of the wild plains
 Now granite soul you're a haunter
 A haunter hunting the children of the wild plains
 And if my great-great-great-great-great-great
 grandma could find them
 She would put all of their poisoned
 All of their poisoned, poisoned teeth
 In her medicine bag, in her medicine bag
 She'd make a graph of our death beat
 Pulse, murmur, quiet... pulse, murmur, quiet...
 Like hiding pheasants in tall grass
 Now there're faces in the rocks and they're
 coming on strong
 Faces in the rocks with medicine tongues
 Faces in the rocks, feels like a million to one
 Woman and man in the moon with a cradleboard son
 Braided 'round close 'till all warmth is gone, gone
 So here take these blankets, here take these blankets
 They're woven from the hair of the dead
 With the hair from your sisters, hair from your brothers,
 Hair from your lovers, hair from the beavers,
 hair from the otters
 The hair from your mothers, hair from your father
 Hair from your lovers, hair from the beavers, hair from
 the otters
 And we, we saw through you
 Like a candle through a buffalo's eye
 And we, we stood by you
 Like a mama bear shot with her cubs at her side
 And we, we saw through you
 Like a candle through a buffalo's eye