Passing Afternoon Lyrics

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 your son for his sturdy arms We bo...Read Full Lyrics

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 still sinking Down and down ...Read Full Lyrics

She says, "Wake up, it's no use pretending" I'll keep stealing, breathing her Birds are leaving over autumn's ending One of us will die inside these arms Eyes wide open, naked as w...Read Full Lyrics

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 the juniper shade The farmho...Read Full Lyrics

And when you give me your clothes And when we're lovers at last Fresh air, perfume in your nose There will be teeth in the grass And when you give me your house When we're al...Read Full Lyrics

Love is a dress that you made Long to hide your knees Love to say this to your face I love you only For your days and excitement What will you keep for to wear? Someday drawing you...Read Full Lyrics

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 her bed And a letter he wro...Read Full Lyrics

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 Buried in Christmas Bows and a bla...Read Full Lyrics

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 "Take me home" When the wind...Read Full Lyrics

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 on her face "I want your flo...Read Full Lyrics