Adieu, Mr. Higginson lyrics

Adieu, Mr. Higginson
My last days are through
Farewell to all your legions
Dirt of the daisy to your oceans blue

Leave them to wonder
Why I was won't to capitalize
And why my visage
Evaded their eyes

They can look on my garden
With recognition I didn't know
When you get all my papers
Know the queen of calvary was riding solo

Ooh, slate gray and a lithium white
Slant of light through the clouds
These are the kind of things that I write

Called Back in marble
Isn't what it should've said
The quill was intact
When October fell from the seedhead

Heliotrope and gentian
What I said about religion
Flapping bats and Gottschalk
The carnivals and cakewalks
Farewell my family
The munitions, the coats of lead
I'll go out one
Emily di*kinson instead

Ooh, slate gray and a lithium white
Slant of light through the clouds
These are the kind of things that I write