"[Dormouse Sighs]" lyrics

Brighter days, whiter painted graves
Under Idaho sky set to roadside attraction prayer
[SANSEVIERIA:]
Traveling where the trains will?
[BURNING BOOKS:] To Gainesville
[One turning, looks in semicircles]
Lies!
[SANSEVIERIA:]
Have a little decency and time to kill?
[BLUEBIRD (on a branch):]
Unpromised land!
[DORMOUSE sighs]
The avalanche of sadness!
Of untied strange commands
As symbols on their hands, now stored on foreheads!
How concerned with unsubstantial terms
And turns of circumstance... [etc.]

[LITTLE LAMB:]
Before the day is done
My prince is gonna come

[JOSEPHINE FOSTER:]
Ye winged seraphs fly, bear the news
With loud and joyful cry
[SANSEVIERIA:]
Boys with nothing left to lose?
[NIKOLAI VOLKOFF (in Croatian muffin hat):]
Bridal shoes a birthright--
Child of the Ephraimites!
Not quite prepared to speak right--
[SANSEVIERIA:]
Or sleep well with how well we sleep at night?
[BLUEBIRD (outside door):]
Mating rights secured
[LAMBS (with best attempts to keep themselves warm):]
A toast to all we're meant for!

[Withhold details of West Virginia highwayside]

[LITTLE LAMB:]
Before the day is done
My prince is gonna come

[BURNING BOOKS:]
Fire and a flood
There's power in the blood
Of every little lamb
Wonderworking power