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 hushing (2)________ under a swollen silver moon
I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom
And strange (3)__________ halted me, the looming shadows danced
I fell down to the thorny brush and felt the (4)__________________ hands
When the last (5)__________ warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain (6)________ will come to (7)________ away your bones
And rise with me forever
Across the silent sand
And the (8)__________ will be your eyes
And the wind will be my (9)__________
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 hushing (2)________ under a swollen silver moon
I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom
And strange (3)__________ halted me, the looming shadows danced
I fell down to the thorny brush and felt the (4)__________________ hands
When the last (5)__________ warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain (6)________ will come to (7)________ away your bones
And rise with me forever
Across the silent sand
And the (8)__________ will be your eyes
And the wind will be my (9)__________
Answers:
(1) twines(2) dusk(3) hands(4) trembling(5) light(6) cats(7) drag(8) stars(9) hands