Burying Geraldine

歌詞

My niece forgot her flowers So we cracked the lid Lord, Lord I saw her face as the sunlight flooded in She wore six roses And a badge across her chest Lord, Lord Like a little shoebox With a tiny bird within The heat blazing beat against my face Lord, Lord I picked a shovel from the pile in which they lay I felt it's heft and it's bite along it's edge Lord, Lord A fitting partner to dance away the day They spoke some hollow words That I didn't hear Lord, Lord I watched the flowers sway As they lowered mama down We threw the dirt down hard upon the lid Lord, Lord And it give me a chill Like the faintest knocking sound She comes to me at night And visits in my dreams Lord, Lord But all those years they seem to burn away And all of those voices They're hard to retrieve Lord, Lord As I stand above the place in which they lay My niece forgot her flowers So we cracked the lid Lord, Lord I saw her face as the sunlight flooded in She wore six roses And a badge across her chest Lord, Lord Like a little shoebox With a tiny bird within