Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Death in Arkansas, artist - Eliza Gilkyson. Album song Roses at the End of Time, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 02.05.2011
Record label: Red House
Song language: English
Death in Arkansas |
I remember how the wood would smell |
Just as the last great tree was felled |
Like many that came before |
It was used for table and a door |
A palette and a long hall rack |
Hung my great grandfather’s hat |
A stable and a barn, a bed and a seat |
A roof and fence and a floor that creaked |
And a coffin leanin against the wall |
When there was a death in Arkansas |
I liked the wagons and the wheels |
The wind that knocked us down in the fields |
And the girls with the southern drawl |
And those that came before were the pictures on the wall |
And the lone dogs howled and the crows would caw |
When there was a death in Arkansas |
We were laid to rest out under the sun |
And we breathed our last |
And it was done |
And the air redeemed us and we would learn |
That a life was hallowed and we wouldn’t burn |
Hands folded gently to say goodbye |
It was just this place underneath the sky |
Do you see our bones hidin like a toad |
In the old red dirt that is now a road |
Beneath the sign that blinks off on |
And a shopping mall where the house is gone |
Forgetting that a soul may call |
When there is a death in Arkansas |
And a quilten patch of new concrete |
Helps the trucks roll down the street |
There’s a Dollar Store by the setting sun |
And a sign on the church says His Will is Done |
I can’t see the birds or find the fields |
That hold my bones beneath the wheels |
And a mother worries that her son won’t call |
And a tv stares at a blinking wall |
But the lone dogs howl and the crows still call |
When there is a death in Arkansas |