Far From Any Road by Handsome Family
From the dusty mesa
Her looming shadow grows
Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote
She twines her spines up slowly
Towards the boiling sun
And (1)________ I touched her skin
My fingers ran with blood
In the hushing dusk under a swollen silver moon
I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom
And strange hands halted me, the looming (2)______________ danced
I (3)________ down to the (4)____________ brush and felt the trembling hands
When the (5)________ light warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain (6)________ will (7)________ to drag away your bones
And rise with me forever
Across the (8)____________ sand
And the stars will be your eyes
And the wind will be my (9)__________
Her looming shadow grows
Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote
She twines her spines up slowly
Towards the boiling sun
And (1)________ I touched her skin
My fingers ran with blood
In the hushing dusk under a swollen silver moon
I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom
And strange hands halted me, the looming (2)______________ danced
I (3)________ down to the (4)____________ brush and felt the trembling hands
When the (5)________ light warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain (6)________ will (7)________ to drag away your bones
And rise with me forever
Across the (8)____________ sand
And the stars will be your eyes
And the wind will be my (9)__________
Answers:
(1) when(2) shadows(3) fell(4) thorny(5) last(6) cats(7) come(8) silent(9) hands