Crush of Mud and Light<\/p>\n
02.13.12<\/p>\n
You were the first love story<\/p>\n
You were the archetype<\/p>\n
And it were your hands that painted for me all the constellations<\/p>\n
Father I was the last one to see you<\/p>\n
Close your eyes, close your eyes<\/p>\n
And you were the first ‘I’m sorry’<\/p>\n
As you became the seldom seen<\/p>\n
And it was your glass of scotch you slowly filled up every morning<\/p>\n
But it was I who said ‘Its time<\/p>\n
For the morphine, morphine’<\/p>\n
And I hope that it lets you go easy<\/p>\n
You know its okay to give up the fight<\/p>\n
I swear your heart will beat forever I will carry it in mine<\/p>\n
With all the tears and all the fire<\/p>\n
In a crush of mud and light<\/p>\n
And you played a five-string banjo<\/p>\n
And you gambled on the Mississippi Queen<\/p>\n
And though you may not be alive to play that sweet D45<\/p>\n
You know your children’s hands will hold it<\/p>\n
As they sing, as they sing<\/p>\n
Oh well we told you we were done with anger<\/p>\n
As we felt your bones through the sheets<\/p>\n
And though it may have been a lie we said that we were all alright<\/p>\n
And that they days we spent with you dear<\/p>\n
Had all been sweet, so sweet<\/p>\n
Well mama always told us babies stay away from whiskey and guitars<\/p>\n
Or you’ll end up just like daddy pickin tunes for credit in a run-down bar<\/p>\n
But I always loved good bourbon and I found a mandolin before too long<\/p>\n
And I know I’m my daddy’s daughter cause the best thing that I ever did was<\/p>\n
Write my first song<\/p>\n
Well I wasn’t so sure you heard us<\/p>\n
As my sister and I played so low<\/p>\n
And in the days that came I asked myself if I must have been dreaming<\/p>\n
When you said ‘Play me one more song<\/p>\n
Before you go, before you go’<\/p>\n
So I sang the Sound of Silence<\/p>\n
And I sang you Rosasharn<\/p>\n
And I said we’d join our fathers and our fathers gone before<\/p>\n
And that we would all be kept safe<\/p>\n
Safe from harm, from harm<\/p>\n
And I hope that I sang you so gently<\/p>\n
Through that bitter black October night<\/p>\n
I know your heart will beat forever I will carry it in mine<\/p>\n
With all the tears and all the fire<\/p>\n
In a crush of mud and light<\/p>\n
And light<\/p>\n
And light<\/p>\n
And light<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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