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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
Answers:
(1) branches(2) silver(3) cactus(4) looming(5) shadows(6) thorny(7) warms(8) come