Farmer's Son - Augie March

I didn’t know you, I never knew you

Now I’m never gonna see you again

An acquaintance all my childhood years

I could never call you a friend

I was afraid that I might become you

I was afraid you might appear

As a weight upon my chest at night

And a whisper in my ear

O the watershed I built

And wept enough that I could fill it

So the ground beneath my feet would yield

Enough that I could heal it

I’m gonna get it back, gonna get better

Gonna get it fixed, gonna burn that letter

I don’t know what’s coming but I’ll take it

Whatever now

For I was born to another vocation

I was born in another era

I wasn’t born that I should live my life

Beneath your failure and fear

Every night the storm grew closer

Every day the fire drew near

When they’d meet upon this acre

And I prayed it’d up and disappear

O the watershed I built

And wept enough that I could fill it

So the ground beneath my feet would yield

Enough that I could heal it

I’m gonna get it back, gonna get better

Gonna get it fixed, gonna burn that letter

I don’t know what’s coming but I’ll take it

Whatever now

You didn’t know it, you didn’t see me

As you went about your work

I was hiding in the pantry

I was practicing the shirk

By the time my shoulders straightened up

And my hands were strong enough

You couldn’t lift an arm against her

You were too ill for that kind of stuff

O the watershed I built

And wept enough that I could fill it

So the ground beneath my feet would yield

Enough that I could heal it

Women don’t see it when they’re with the wrong fella

Women don’t see it cos you know they don’t wanna

Women don’t see it when they’re with the wrong fella

Women don’t see it cos you know they don’t wanna

I could see it coming but I know

It doesn’t matter now