Far From Any Road Lyrics - Singing Bones - Handsome Family

From the dusty mesa 

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 hands halted 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 

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