Far From Any Road / The Handsome Family

Far From Any Road

 Far From Any Road

 From the dusty May sun
 Her looming shadow grows
 Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote
 She twines her spines up slowly
 Towards the boiling sun
 And when i touched her skin
 My fingers ran with blood

 In the hushing dusk under a swollen silver moon
 I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom
 And strange hands halted me, the looming shadows danced
 I fell down to the thorny brush and felt the trembling hands

 When the last light warms the rocks

 And the rattlesnakes unfold
 Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones
 And rise with me forever
 Across the silent sand
 And the stars will be your eyes
 And the wind will be my hands