Lyrics Valerie - The Donkeys

Valerie

Valerie went up in the hills
Through the wilderness
She was born in and knew so well.
She carried her letters there,
Away from her mother’s care.
Turned them from fire to ash, then air,
Until the silence became a shrill.
Hazy, mazy, were the valleys of her mind.
All the haze she had
could not cure the love inside.
Of her family sins i cannot tell.
She picked my fingers and cast a spell,
Leaving me flipping coins down the well.
Until the silence became a shrill.
With death she knew, separation was their fate.
To stay with them, she must return from the pearly gates.
So she laid a daisy dagger down,
Under the bed, wrapped in fur,
Calling for the crows to stir,
Until the silence became a shrill.
Valerie went up in the hills
Through the wilderness
She was born in and knew so well.
She carried her parents there,
Away from the vulture’s care.
Turned them from fire to ash, then air,
Thats when the silence began to kill.
Thats when the silence began to kill.
Thats when the silence began to kill.
Thats when the silence began to…