The Handsome Family

Chicago is where the woman downstairs Starved herself to death last summer Her boyfriend Ted ate hot dogs and wept With the gray rats out on the fire escape In a thrift store chair I drank cases of beer And dreamed of laying down on the El tracks The

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 sea of redwood trees Schools of shining fish and a thousand buzzing bees Over winter par

FALLEN PEACHES We came down the black dirt hill Between the rows of blooming peaches And we scattered leaping fawns As we fell into the ditches Ahead of me ran Jackson Who took a bullet to the chest And beneath the swaying peaches Jackson slowly bled

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 strand of your hair lost to the wind Sent doves wheeling through the air But now I'm alone in

男: From the dusty mesa 在尘土飞扬的岩滩上 Her looming shadow grows 她的影子隐隐生长 Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote 躲在充满毒液的分叉后 She twines her spines up slowly 她缓缓盘起她的身体 Towards the boiling sun 向着沸腾的太阳 And when I touched her skin 当我碰到她的皮肤 My fingers ran