Far From Any Road by Handsome Family
From the (1)__________ mesa
Her looming (2)____________ grows
Hidden in the branches of the (3)____________ creosote
She (4)____________ her spines up slowly
Towards the boiling sun
And when I touched her skin
My fingers ran (5)________ blood
In the hushing dusk under a (6)______________ silver moon
I came (7)______________ (8)________ the (9)________ to (10)__________ the (11)____________ bloom
And (12)______________ hands halted me, the (13)______________ shadows danced
I fell down to the (14)____________ (15)__________ and (16)________ the trembling hands
When the last light warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain (17)________ (18)________ (19)________ to drag (20)________ your bones
And rise (21)________ me forever
Across the silent sand
And the stars will be (22)________ eyes
And the (23)________ will be my hands
Her looming (2)____________ grows
Hidden in the branches of the (3)____________ creosote
She (4)____________ her spines up slowly
Towards the boiling sun
And when I touched her skin
My fingers ran (5)________ blood
In the hushing dusk under a (6)______________ silver moon
I came (7)______________ (8)________ the (9)________ to (10)__________ the (11)____________ bloom
And (12)______________ hands halted me, the (13)______________ shadows danced
I fell down to the (14)____________ (15)__________ and (16)________ the trembling hands
When the last light warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain (17)________ (18)________ (19)________ to drag (20)________ your bones
And rise (21)________ me forever
Across the silent sand
And the stars will be (22)________ eyes
And the (23)________ will be my hands
Answers:
(1) dusty(2) shadow(3) poison(4) twines(5) with(6) swollen(7) walking(8) with(9) wind(10) watch(11) cactus(12) strange(13) looming(14) thorny(15) brush(16) felt(17) cats(18) will(19) come(20) away(21) with(22) your(23) wind