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Far From Any Road by Handsome Family

From the dusty mesa
Her (1)______________ (2)____________ grows
Hidden in the branches of the (3)____________ creosote
She (4)____________ her spines up slowly
Towards the (5)______________ sun
And (6)________ I touched her skin
My fingers ran with blood
In the (7)______________ dusk (8)__________ a swollen (9)____________ moon
I came walking (10)________ the wind to (11)__________ the (12)____________ bloom
And (13)______________ hands halted me, the (14)______________ (15)______________ danced
I fell down to the (16)____________ brush and felt the trembling hands
When the last (17)__________ warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain cats will come to (18)________ (19)________ (20)________ bones
And (21)________ with me forever
Across the silent sand
And the stars will be your eyes
And the wind will be my hands
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(1) looming(2) shadow(3) poison(4) twines(5) boiling(6) when(7) hushing(8) under(9) silver(10) with(11) watch(12) cactus(13) strange(14) looming(15) shadows(16) thorny(17) light(18) drag(19) away(20) your(21) rise