Well, I wanted to "cook" this one a while longer, but it's been a busy week, and I've got a gig today, so this is where it's gonna have to land, I'm afraid.
lyrics
And she was standing still, taking my pulse
Looking like a chestnut tree
And lord knows where that knife come from
she was tapping on her blood-stained knee
eyes gone black with a switchblade mouth
Subtle as a mushroom cloud
And all I thought was how’m’I supposed to think
them cicadas so damn loud
Back in years gone by, my momma took a swing at
Keeping up the family pride
packed us in the car with the bags piled high
smelling like insecticide
and thinking back now on her seaside visions
trying to soothe us like a rocking horse
but all we heard from the back seat, screaming,
Was the crashing of a slow divorce
Should you sing a reckoning song
you’ve been gone far too long
throw away what’s broken
And you keep what you need
put it in the poison you bleed
Find your way home
So tell me true my mind’s gone blank
my memory good and bled
what poor steps led my four limbs
come sprawled across this bed
have I sinned how come to kneel
how deep deserved my shame
what strong wind now stirred to wrath
come fanned this fuel to flame
Did the blood run cold did the dirt run thick
where my momma taught her birds to fly
did she bury her name where the cold steel shovel
broke the ground neath the iron-rain sky
Did he hope she’d bend when she swore she’d never break
did she tie her tethers down
and was she thinking of you, my sister blessed
when she stood her cold, cold ground
Should you sing a reckoning song
you’ve been gone far too long
throw away what’s broken
And you keep what you need
put it in the poison you bleed
Find your way home
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