Snakebit(Album Version) - Mary Gauthier

Snakebit (Album Version) - Mary Gauthier
Written by：Hayes Carll
The children are crying they never got their supper
Where would you run to in the darkness of the night
Even shadows fear to wander
They gather round me in the candlelight
Your crucifix broken bloody sharp and shattered
I smashed it to pieces on the bedroom floor
Pain and prayers and promises scattered
Then I pulled the pistol from the dresser drawer
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
What have I done
Everything worth holding slips through my fingers
Now my hands wrapped around the handle of a gun
The further I fall the less I falter
Forsaken forgotten without love
A slow motion whisper turns into a holler
40 years of push turns into shove
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
What have I done
Everything worth holding slips through my fingers
Now my wrapped around the handle of a gun
The chair that I sit in belong to my daddy
Carved from the hard wood of a bitter tree
When he was alive he used to tell me kid
I knew when you were born you'd end up snake bit like me
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
What have I done
Everything worth holding slips through my fingers
Now my hands wrapped around the handle of a gun
I'm holding on to the handle of a gun