Harry James Angus Matty And Josie
Matty saw Josie on a Tuesday
She was totally strung out
They'd gone to primary school together
It's funny how some things turn out
He remembered how they used to sit
Upon the hill and clean the chalky dusters from the school
He took her home to make her better
They made pumpkin soup together
Her eyes, they changed like the weather
And they soon made love together
And when her eyes had cleared she saw
Him standing in the bathroom light
And realised that she would love him
Until the end of time
Matty worked down at the meat works
With all the pigs and all the blood
Sometimes the smell of death follows him home
And sometimes he dreams of the flood
But he would wake to find that golden face
Asleep beside his pillow
And he thought that he might love her
Until the end of time
One night Josie was making coffee
Matty came home kind of early
He was carrying an old sack of bones
He said "I killed a man a long time ago"
He said, "you don't have to know the when or the why
Just believe me that he was bad and he deserved to die
I buried him down by the river side a long time ago
And now they're building those new movie studios
So I had to dig him up, gonna put him in the yard
You can't tell anybody babe, I know that this is hard
But you can't tell anybody if you love me
You can't tell anybody if you love me"
That night they made love so passionately and he smelled of earth
As he lay beside her in the moonlight and she cried
Because she knew that she would love him
Until the end of time
Next day Josie went to the policeman
She said, "my boyfriend he's killed a man"
She said, "he's buried in our garden"
They said, "you're doing the right thing, ma'am"
They went around to Matty's house with picks and shovels
Josie felt that hot old desert wind, coming down the line
The cops started digging
The cops started digging
The cops started digging in the yard
The cops started digging
The cops started digging
The cops started digging in the yard
And soon they found a sack
A big old brown sack
And they opened it up on the grass
And underneath the heshen
Was a pile of bones that looked like they could have been buried
Since before the dawn of time
But they weren't human bones they were pig bones
While the cops were standing around Matty came home
"Sorry for the trouble, fellers", he said, and he explained what he had done
And the cops were quite impressed
He said, "I wanted to know if I could trust her with my life
But baby you're a junkie, not a wife
Glad I made this little test, how could I marry someone who would turn me in for murder
You're not worth it"
The cops silently agreed as they turned their backs and started to shovel all the earth back in
And Matty hung his head in sadness because he knew that the person that he loved was not this person
And that night Josie felt the cold space beside her pillow in the moonlight
And she cried, because she knew that she would love him, until the end of time
