
Date of issue: 31.03.2021
Song language: English
The Killing Fields |
You crossed on Brooklyn Ferry not a boy, but not a man |
Left behind the Navy Yard |
And your father’s mislaid plans |
I was at the other ocean |
And I could not get away |
From the flurry of emergencies every single day |
There was cotton on the killing fields |
It blows down through the years |
Sticks to me just like a burn fills my eyes and ears |
All that came before me is not everything I am |
A girl who settled far too low |
On religion and that man |
The low ebb of the rocky soil |
The high tide of the trees |
The dust of men and thunderstorms |
The parched and rolling sea |
He’s running through the killing fields |
Just like a hunted deer |
Impartial moon, uncaring stars |
He falls where no one hears |
The blood that runs on cypress trees |
Cannot be washed away by mothers' tears |
And gasoline and secrets un-betrayed |
I know it’s hard to hear these words |
They sure are hard to say |
But listen to the mockingbird |
Who sings over their graves |
The ripple of the life unlived |
The ghosts of mice and men |
The empty space of one man’s heart |
And what he might have been |
But St. Margaret, she looks over us |
St. Margaret and her kin |
At the far edge of the killing fields |
She stands there now and then |
So goodbye to your Navy Yard |
Goodbye to my sea |
A truce between the East and West |
And my Southern history |
Goodbye to the killing fields |
I’ll break every single bow |
'Cause all that came before you |
And all that came before me |
And all that came before us |
Is not who we are now |
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Put A Woman In Charge ft. Rosanne Cash | 2019 |
A Feather's Not A Bird | 2012 |
Modern Blue | 2012 |
Sea Of Heartbreak (Feat. Bruce Springsteen) ft. Bruce Springsteen | 2008 |
September When It Comes ft. Johnny Cash | 2002 |
She Remembers Everything ft. Sam Phillips | 2018 |
Seven Year Ache ft. Rosanne Cash | 2001 |
The Sunken Lands | 2012 |
As Close as I Came to Being Right ft. Rosanne Cash | 2013 |
The Way We Make A Broken Heart ft. Rosanne Cash | 1998 |
Tennessee Flat Top Box ft. Rosanne Cash | 2011 |
Sister Oh Sister ft. Mary Karr, Rosanne Cash | 2011 |
The Undiscovered Country | 2018 |
The Only Thing Worth Fighting For ft. Colin Meloy | 2018 |
No Memories Hanging 'Round ft. Rosanne Cash, Rodney Crowell | 2011 |
Not Many Miles To Go | 2018 |
Radio Operator | 2005 |
Good Intent | 2005 |
This Train Don't Stop There Anymore ft. Emmylou Harris | 2018 |
The Unfaithful Servant | 2003 |