Far From Any Road by Handsome Family

From the dusty mesa
Her looming shadow grows
Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote
She (1)____________ her spines up slowly
Towards the boiling sun
And when I touched her skin
My fingers ran with blood
In the (2)______________ (3)________ under a swollen silver moon
I came (4)______________ with the wind to watch the cactus bloom
And strange hands halted me, the looming (5)______________ danced
I fell down to the thorny brush and felt the (6)__________________ 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 (7)____________ sand
And the stars will be (8)________ eyes
And the (9)________ will be my hands

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