Patty Griffin - White Dove lyrics

Laying low in the darkness A long slow pain beats deep in her chest And she wonders if he's safe tonight Or if he's warm enough And she tries to send upon the wind A song of her love Well a hundred miles away or more A man learns what he's worth A canon fires his body flies Ashes to the earth Far away something stirs a woman from her sleep Flutters at her windowsill and she begins to weep Oh white dove fly to her window in the morning Tell my sweet love that I'm gone that I'm gone White dove tell my love all there is to say Oh white dove fly fly away Well a hundred miles away or more This wind becomes a storm Another soldier closed his eyes And slowly becomes warm Turns his eyes to the sky from where he's laying low There he sees the white dove lying in the snow