Every ending that you ever rushed Stings like cinder, slow as rust Shotgun slug found in the middle of A field of red bags, ripe with Vidalias
Time ain´t always kind To the shakin´ child or the slippin´ mind
Every heart that you ever loved Ragged wrung and divvied up Fallow tracts to a scythe, a dove A cellar stocked with bushels of
Time ain´t always kind To the shakin´ child or the slippin´ mind
Hallelujah, turpentine We can tend the land for a little while Bones of those beneath the boundary lines
East in sets first, and then clockwise, clockwise
Every acre that you ever owned Hissed and split like a radiator hose I seen your kinfolk walkin´ the meadows Burrs and burns, but not alone
Time ain´t always kind To the shakin´ child or the slippin´ mind
Hallelujah, turpentine We can tend the land for a little while Bones of those beneath the boundary lines East in sets first, and then clockwise, clockwise