Hickory lyrics

he kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill
she`ll never love him but knows that her father will
her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but her
breast never dries when he`s hungry

the money came and she died in her rocking chair
the window wide and the rain in her braided hair
a letter locked in the pattern of her knuckle
like a hymn to the house she was making

blind and whistling just around the corner and there`s a
wind that is whispering something
strong as hell but not hickory rooted

she kissed him once cause he gave her a cigarette
and turned around but he waits like a turned down bed
and summer left like her walking with another and a
sound of a church bell ringing

the money came and he died like a butterfly
a buried star and the haze of the city lights
a gun went off and her mother dropped her baby on the
blue feathered wing - we were lucky

blind and whistling just around the corner and there`s a
wind that is whispering something
strong as hell but not hickory rooted
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