Gone is the garden, stalks rot dry Gone are the children whom we learned to water And all the chicks died at dawn Starving in a feather pile of their dead mother New milk is draining; soft curd draws Within the muslin cloth we hung to filter And all the cows died in line Stretching the electric fence to the open pasture Nobody can tell, nobody can tell Nobody can tell, nobody can tell Make love with yourself The body can't tell Nobody can tell, nobody can tell Cradled in his hand, a flame glows Inside the hay loft, he climbs up the ladder And all the bats died at once Fighting in a burning pile of the boy's wonder There is a lesson, careless eyes Prying the fruit out from behind the story And all the kids lost their sight Clutching at their bellyaches from the poison berries Nobody can tell, nobody can tell Nobody can tell, nobody can tell Make love with yourself The body can't tell Nobody can tell, nobody can tell Nobody can tell, nobody can tell Nobody can tell, nobody can tell Make love with yourself The body can't tell Nobody can tell, nobody can tell