jacob he loved rachel and rachel she loved him and leah was just there for dramatic effect well it s right there in the bible so it must not be a sin but it sure does seem like an awful dirty trick and her sky is just a petal pressed in a book of a memory of the time he thought he loved her and they kissed and her friends say ah he s a devil but she says no he is a dream this is the world as best as i can remember it now jacob got two women and a whole house full of kids and he schemed his way back to the promised land and he finds it s one thing to win em and it s another to keep em content when he knows that he is only just one man and his sky s an empty bottle and when he s drunk the ocean dry well he sails off three sheets to some reckless wind and his friends say ain t it awful and he says no i think it s fine and this is the world as best as i can remember it now rachel s weeping for the children that she thought she could not bear and she bears a sorrow that she cannot hide and she wishes she was with them but she just looks and they re not there seems that love comes for just a moment and then it passes on by and her sky is just a bandit swinging at the end of a hangman s noose cause he stole the moon and must be made to pay for it and her friends say my that s tragic she says especially for the moon and this is the world as best as i can remember it and this is the world as best as i can remember it 