《Death in Arkansas》歌词

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I remember how the wood would smell[00:00:14]

Just as the last great tree was felled[00:00:19]

Like many that came before[00:00:23]

It was used for table and a door[00:00:26]

A palette and a long hall rack[00:00:29]

Hung my great grandfather's hat[00:00:33]

A stable and a barn, a bed and a seat[00:00:37]

A roof and fence and a floor that creaked[00:00:43]

And a coffin leanin against the wall[00:00:50]

When there was a death in Arkansas[00:00:54]

I liked the wagons and the wheels[00:01:10]

The wind that knocked us down in the fields[00:01:13]

And the girls with the southern drawl[00:01:16]

And those that came before were the pictures on the wall[00:01:20]

And the lone dogs howled and the crows would caw[00:01:25]

When there was a death in Arkansas[00:01:29]

We were laid to rest out under the sun[00:01:35]

And we breathed our last[00:01:39]

And it was done[00:01:40]

And the air redeemed us and we would learn[00:01:42]

That a life was hallowed and we wouldn't burn[00:01:47]

Hands folded gently to say goodbye[00:01:52]

It was just this place underneath the sky[00:01:56]

Do you see our bones hidin like a toad[00:02:00]

In the old red dirt that is now a road[00:02:04]

Beneath the sign that blinks off on[00:02:10]

And a shopping mall where the house is gone[00:02:13]

Forgetting that a soul may call[00:02:20]

When there is a death in Arkansas[00:02:24]

And a quilten patch of new concrete[00:02:55]

Helps the trucks roll down the street[00:02:59]

There's a Dollar Store by the setting sun[00:03:02]

And a sign on the church says His Will is Done[00:03:05]

I can't see the birds or find the fields[00:03:13]

That hold my bones beneath the wheels[00:03:17]

And a mother worries that her son won't call[00:03:23]

And a tv stares at a blinking wall[00:03:28]

But the lone dogs howl and the crows still call[00:03:34]

When there is a death in Arkansas[00:03:39]

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