OFFICIAL LYRICS


Time it unfolds slowly
like my lovers hair so clean and gentle
she spills saw dust on the floor and I cant ignore, I cant ignore
the patterns that she makes with her feet

Read the line's on her face
they lead me to her lips
like the patterns on the floor show me her hips
and the man outside the door
like the footsteps in the hall
mean nothing to us but soft falling drips

The pines they were dug up we called them fowl
outside the window I see my child
playing with the splinters that fell upon the land, upon the land
and the seeds I gave her growing in her hand,

Time here unwinds slowly
and the sun is often shaded
my lover sold her name to a simple time, a simple time
and she gave her heart away but I give her mine

i walk upon the barricades
to keep myself near constant danger
my lady hums a tune and hangs upon the beam,
an old snake charm to help him dream,
for my youngest lying in the manger

how can I keep this all so fair
with the riders falling so close to our door
the flies they swarm across the trees, but in the breeze 
I see the sunrise fall upon the leaves

I hear the birds I hear my mother speak
with old words so soft and gentle
when I die oh when I die, like my brother, like my brother
in-between my father and my mother