Ain’t No Grave - The Handsome Family

Oh you little sparrows on a swaying branch Singing to the cars up on the overpass When you fly away from here Take me with you when you go A herd of antelope a

Darling my darling Look at my waving antennae My barbed jaw and hard red pinchers The stripes running down my spine Darling my darling Watch me fly up in spiral

Give me a swamp a deep dark bog 给我一片沼泽一片漆黑 Where I can lose my way in pools of slippery mud 我可以在泥泞的池塘里迷失方向 Give me cold cold rain a clou

Love is like a white moth sipping tears from sleeping birds An asteroid in flames tumbling to earth Raindrops sliding down the stems of orange leaves A flicker

Like the thorn bush twines against the chain link fence Like the spider spins its rings between the trees And the lonely sycamore bends to the breeze I am the p

A smashed windshield the dust on a pickup truck Shine with silver secrets in the Albuquerque sun The light makes jewels of pawn shops and drive through banks Wr

When we were together I lay in your river As the fish swam through my hands Raindrops and roses fell from the heavens Just to brush against your skin And a stra

I swear I heard a bird calling high in the chestnut trees The sun was so bright that bird I couldn't see No matter where I stood I couldn't see beak or wing Jus