There Is a Sound - The Handsome Family

So long to my dog Snickers who ate Christmas tinsel So long to Mr Whiskers who jumped out of a window And to the family of gerbils who chewed out of their cage

Last night my window opened In the cold winter breeze And from the dark forest A white dog stared in at me He sat in the branches With his glowing yellow eyes A

In the parking lot where I waited alone A white bird sat sleeping on a broken payphone And there came a black beetle dragging off a green fly Underneath a parke

I saw a deer limp across A supermarket parking lot Last night as I drove home from work Old men sleeping in the dirt Abandoned buildings full of smoke Children

Sparks Sparks Cold cold cold As the cold wind blows Cold cold cold As the cold wind blows Out on highway five there's a field Where sometimes at night people di

When the rope of death strangles And dark waters roar and foam When fear and trembling hold me And the slimy grip pulls down I know you are there When the pale

There's a blind man who hears angels He hears them whispering inside potatoes And from the curling leaves of blooming plants And in the winding tracks of crawli

Ever since you moved out I've been living in the park I'd rather talk to the wind Than an empty apartment And I wish I could forget How a billion birds flew in