The Barr Brothers How the Heroine Dies song lyrics

I thought if I fought you

In the open field

Your bayonet would crack on my hard iron shield

You caught me running

Now I'm at your command

A servant to forces that I don't understand

If you were the shepherd

And I was the lamb

And long was the journey

And dark was the land

Who would be following who

Who would be free

Who would believe that the shepherd was me

When the poet decides how the heroine dies

He commits original sin

When that last ray decays from the boardwalk parades

Yours is the longest shadow to face

Oklahoma, don't bury your eyes

Night receives morning like death receives life

Blown on the ashes of the emperor's clothes

All through the cornfields planted in rows

When that poet decides how the heroine dies

He commits original sin

When that ray decays from the boardwalk parade

Yours is the longest shadow to fade

Yours is the longest shadow to fade