We came in this world together
Legs wrapped around each other
My cheek against my sister's
We were born like tangled vine We lived along the river
Where the black clouds never lingered
The sunlight spread like honey
In my sister's tiny hands But while picking sour apples
In the wild waving gra**es
Sister stumbled in the brier
And was bitten by a snake Every creature casts a shadow under the sun's golden finger
But when the sun sinks past the waving gra**
Some shadows are dragged along Alone, I took to drinking bottles of cheap whiskey
And staggering through the back woods
k**ing snakes with a sharpened stick But still I heard her laughing
In those wild waving gra**es
Still her tiny hands went splashing at the river's sparkling shore So I took my rusty gas can
And an old iron shovel
I set the woods to burning
And choked the river up with stones Every creature casts a shadow under the sun's golden finger
But when the sun sinks past the waving gra**
Some shadows are dragged along