1. Tick, tock, toad-stone
Crouching in the river bed
Tell me where the ocean went
Tell me where you lay your head.
2. Tick, tock, toad-stone
Swaddled in the ocean's bone
Show me where the river goes
Show me what the limestone knows.
3. Tick, tock, toad-stone,
Why do you sit here alone?
I'll tell you what I've always known
Down in the river's autumn.
4. Tick, tock, toad-stone,
Tell me where the branches fall,
Each new branch a world alone,
Rake and vein and manifold.
5. Tick, tock, toad-stone,
Tell me where we're going now,
Ocean, forest, metal, me -
We're all ther...