Far From Any Road by Handsome Family

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

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