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 fingers ran with blood
In the hushing dusk under a swollen (2)____________ moon
I came walking with the wind to watch the (3)____________ bloom
And strange hands halted me, the (4)______________ (5)______________ danced
I fell down to the (6)____________ brush and felt the trembling hands
When the last light (7)__________ the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain cats will (8)________ to drag away your bones
And rise with me forever
Across the silent sand
And the stars will be your eyes
And the wind will be my hands
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 fingers ran with blood
In the hushing dusk under a swollen (2)____________ moon
I came walking with the wind to watch the (3)____________ bloom
And strange hands halted me, the (4)______________ (5)______________ danced
I fell down to the (6)____________ brush and felt the trembling hands
When the last light (7)__________ the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
Mountain cats will (8)________ to drag away your bones
And rise with me forever
Across the silent sand
And the stars will be your eyes
And the wind will be my hands
Answers:
(1) branches(2) silver(3) cactus(4) looming(5) shadows(6) thorny(7) warms(8) come