Be this sunset soon forgotten Your brothers left here shaved and crazy We've learned to hide our bottles in the well And what's worth keeping, sun
in the corn on their wings, on our knees crawling careless from the sea God, give us love in the time that we have God, there are guns growing out of our
One will spread our ashes 'round the yard She says "If I leave before you, darling Don't you waste me in the ground" I lay smiling like our sleeping
Will you say when I'm gone away "My lover came to me and we'd lay In rooms unfamiliar but until now" Will you say to them when I'm gone "I loved
When the men take me to the devil tree I will be free and shining like before Papa don't tell me what I should've done She's the one who begged me "
Give me your hand The dog in the garden row is covered in mud And dragging your mother's clothes Cinder and smoke The snake in the basement Found
Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees love to say this to your face, "I'll love you only" for your days and excitement, what will you
Did the wine make her dream Of the far distant spring Or a bed full of hens Or the ghost of a friend All the while that she wept She had a gun by
Papa died smiling Wide as the ring of a bell Gone all star white Small as a wish in a well And Sodom, South Georgia Woke like a tree full of bees
Some days her shape in the doorway Will speak to me A bird's wing on the window Sometimes I'll hear her when she's sleeping Her fever dream A language
a yard to burn but the ground remembers her Wooden spoons, her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days
in your nose There will be teeth in the grass And when you give me your house When we're all brothers at last There will be food in our mouths
Give me your hand The dog in the garden row is covered in mud And dragging your mother?s clothes Cinder and smoke The snake in the basement Found
Will you say when I'm gone away "My lover came to me and we'd lay In rooms unfamiliar but until now" Will you say to them when I'm gone away "I loved
When the men take me to the devil tree I will be free and shining like before Papa dont tell me what I should've done She's the one who begged me "Take
Some days her shape in the doorway Will speak to me A bird?s wing on the window Sometimes I?ll hear when she?s sleeping Her fever dream A language
Love is a dress that you made long to hide your knees Love to say this to your face I'll love you only For your days and excitement What will you keep
How we rise when we're born Like the ravens in the corn On their wings, on our knees Crawling careless from the sea God, there are guns growing out of our
