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Far From Any Road by Handsome Family

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