Far From Any Road by Handsome Family

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

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