The Handsome Family Far from Any Road song lyrics

From the dusty May sun her looming shadow grows

Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote

She twines her spines up slowly towards the boiling sun

And when I touched her skin, my fingers ran with blood

In the hushing dusk, under a swollen silver moon

I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom

And strange hunger haunted me, the looming shadows danced

I fell down to the thorny brush and felt the trembling hands

When the last light warms the rocks and the rattlesnakes unfold

The mountain cats will come to drag away your bones

And rise with me forever across the silent sand

And the stars will be your eyes and the wind will be my hands