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