Why Did the Fox Bark? Songtext
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Understanding and wisdom, Heaven is His throne
Strength and mercy we′ve been shown
Splendor and victory, together as one
Four heavenly angels shone as the sun
Knowledge in a tree for us to see
It's the late eternal for you and for me
Earth is His footstool, all power come down
The number 11 says "God is the stone"

Why did the fox bark?
Why did the lark soar?
Why did the brokk hide home?
To hide from the reaper

Unsuited spectre
To grub up eye rises
With lilies as Greek keys
Or Hebrew codes
To cover my face
With your face


To breathe your breath
Into my breath
To make your words
My seed
And to spell your tell tales as sun-shot
And moon-mouth

If you looked
At your heart′s sound
You would rain arc and arch
As the PickNickMagick
Covered your eyes with gold
And honey and millions of years
And myriads of stars

And cuckoo and chaffinch
Cockchafer and griffin
The antelope sky matched your eyes
That around you sang
Of Dante and Uruk
And ball and the bells
Covering my heart

The bells calling in your fame
Amongst the cynical dead
And the shades of worn empires
And shabby Cæsars wrapped up warm
In the face of the Baal-storm


As cozy as clouds
Or mice in the walls
Or murderers hiding
In the peppermint palaces
Around the bars and the blackbirds
Cawing and soaring
And blessed Ob singing
Soaring as Achad
And Akkad as ankh and anchor