Far From Any Road by Handsome Family
From the dusty mesa
Her (1)______________ 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 (2)________ the wind to watch the (3)____________ bloom
And strange hands halted me, the looming (4)______________ danced
I fell (5)________ to the (6)____________ (7)__________ and felt the (8)__________________ 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 (9)________ will be my hands
Her (1)______________ 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 (2)________ the wind to watch the (3)____________ bloom
And strange hands halted me, the looming (4)______________ danced
I fell (5)________ to the (6)____________ (7)__________ and felt the (8)__________________ 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 (9)________ will be my hands
Answers:
(1) looming(2) with(3) cactus(4) shadows(5) down(6) thorny(7) brush(8) trembling(9) wind