SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Patti Smith lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Patti Smith Lyrics for Song: Blue Poles Lyrics for Album: Original Album Classics [2010] Mother as I write the sun dissolves Blood life streaming cross my hand And these words, these words Hope dashed immortal hope Hope streaking the canvas sky Blue poles infinitely winding, as I write, as I write Blue poles infinitely winding, as I write, as I write We joined the long caravan Hungry dreaming going west Just for work just to get a job And we never got lucky We just forged on And the dust the endless dust Like a plague it covered everything Hal fell with the fever And mother I did what I could Blue poles infinitely winding, as I write, as I write Blue poles infinitely winding, as I write, as I write We prayed we prayed for rain I never wanted to see the sun again All my dresses you made by hand We left behind on the road Hal died in my arms We buried him by the river Blue poles infinitely winding, as I write, as I write Blue poles infinitely winding, as I write, as I write Album Lyrics: Original Album Classics [2010] Patti Smith "Original Album Classics [2010]" 1. Gone Again 2. Don't Say Nothing 3. About A Boy 4. My Madrigal 5. Dead To The World 6. Wing 7. Ravens 8. Fireflies 9. Farewell Reel 10. One Voice 11. Lo And Beholden 12. Boy Cried Wolf 13. Persuasion 14. Gone Pie 15. China Bird 16. Strange Messengers 17. Grateful 18. Upright Come 19. New Party 20. Libbie's Song 21. Gung Ho 22. Dead City 23. Spell 24. Waiting Underground 25. Whirl Away 26. Blue Poles 27. Death Singing 28. Memento Mori 29. Last Call