All the lyrics where sent by "Gunnar Hedlund" @ARTIST: The Handsome Family @ALBUM: Through The Trees @SONG: Weightless Again we stopped for coffee in the Redwood forest giant dripping leaves, spoons of powdered cream I wanted to kiss you but I wasn't sure how like those indians, lost in the rainforest forced to drag burning wood wherever they went they had all forgotten how to start a fire this is why people OD on pills and jump from the Golden Gate Bridge anything to feel weightless again those poor lost indians when the white man found them most died of TB, the rest went insane in our motel room, you're drinking Slice and gin reading Moby Dick on the other bed remember the first time we slept together you said it felt like when you learned to float this is why people OD on pills and jump from the Golden Gate Bridge anything to feel weightless again @SONG: My Sister's Tiny Hands we came in this world together legs wrapped around each other my cheek against my sister's we were born like tangled vine we lived along the river where the black clouds never lingered the sunlight spread like honey in my sister's tiny hands but while picking sour apples in the wild waving grasses sister stumbled in the briar and was bitten by a snake every creature casts a shadow under the sun's golden finger but when the sun sinks past the waving grass some shadows are dragged along alone, I took to drinking bottles of cheap whiskey and staggering through the back woods killing snakes with a sharpened stick but still I heard her laughing in those wild waving grasses still her tiny hands went splashing at the river's sparkling shore so I took my rusty gas can and an old iron shovel I set the woods to burning and choked the river up with stones every creature casts a shadow under the sun's golden finger but when the sun sinks past the waving grass some shadows are dragged along @SONG: Stalled falling snow spun above the road winding through the dark woods where my pick-up stalled falling snow hissing through the air painting my windows white till the trees disappeared even though I started to feel cold and I was far from town I just sat there in the dark @SONG: Where The Birch Trees Lean now that there are green sprouts pushing through dead leaves and fat yellow jackets float on the breeze the waves kiss the shore and the air is warm but birch trees are falling now that you're gone once we walked the crumbling cliffs where the birch trees lean once I kissed your apple lips high above the sea a year ago it was since the last clover grew under creaking birch trees I would wait for you we kissed in the salt air beneath the leaning trees white slender branches bent to the sea once we walked the crumbling cliffs where the birch trees lean now who will kiss your apple lips under the salty sea @SONG: Cathedrals the Cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship like the hand of God falling from the sky a 1000 stone-carved saints hang like icicles but icicles don't take 1000 years to die and everyone who ever worked on this Cathedral or even spent a moment walking by everyone of us is swept away like breadcrumbs what comfort does it bring, soaring towers left behind there's a fiberglass castle in Wisconsin where kids race go-karts around a moat once we went up there in December when every waterslide and fudgeshoop was closed hoping to feel love under the icicles all we did was drink in an empty bar but stumbling drunk we crawled back to our motel room and I fell against you and felt your beating heart snow was slowly falling on the ice machine and the moon shone hazy through the pines but there were lounge chairs thrown into the empty pool and a dog chained to a tree barking at the sky @SONG: Down In The Ground I am not afraid when you call me down down the basement steps under the house down, down in the ground black cows are limping, the white dogs bark crickets are screaming, smoke in the barn just like a field snake eating a mouse just like a blue gill, hook through its mouth down, down in the ground cry for the toy trains lost in the snow cry for the dead deer surrounded by crows you call me softly down in the dark down where the red worms circle like sharks down, down in the ground under the black mud in your quiet house you have prepared my place to lie down a house in the rock where sorrows drown old man or baby make no more sound down, down in the ground @SONG: The Giant Of Illinois the giant of Illinois died from a blister on his toe after walking all day through the first winter's snow throwing bits of stale bread to the last speckled doves he never even felt his shoe full of blood delirious with pain, his bedroom walls began to glow and he felt himself soaring up through falling snow and the sky was a woman's arms the sky was a woman's arms a boy with a club foot had sat next to him in school once upon a summer's day they went wandering through the woods they spotted a sleeping swan on the banks of a muddy stream and they stormed it with rocks till it collapsed in the reeds they lay out on a green lawn full of choclate and lemonade but under the blue bowl the giant was afraid because the sky was a woman's arms the sky was a woman's arms @SONG: Down In The Valley Of Hollow Logs down in the valley of hollow logs two lovers lay in the weeds safe in the net of their sweaty arms safe from the wind in the trees my love, said the boy, you're the clear blue sky you're the air I gulp to breathe I feel you rushing through my vein like the wind rushing through the trees my love, said the girl, you're my secret pearl you're a string of tiny glass beads you're a burning star I keep in a jar safe from the wind in the trees down in the valley of hollow logs two lovers lay back in the weeds listening to the howl of hunting dogs and the wind howling through the trees then insects ran for the underbrush as the wind fills the air with dead leaves and every stone moved closer to dust as the wind tore through the trees so the young girl pierced her lily-white breast her blood poured over dark weeds a silver dagger through her burning heart cold as the wind in the trees so the boy picked up the bloody knife and stove it through the chest farewell, farewell to the wind and the trees I'll die with the one I love best @SONG: I Fell there's a mountain north of Winnipeg buried under ice and as the black clouds roll above white pines crack like glass walking under those swaying trees branches bowed with ice I wanted one to fall on me to pin me in the snow that silver forest reminded me of you and how I kissed you and I fell down to the bottom of a well down a dirt road west of El Paso behind a burning barn I stumbled on a horse's bone bleaching in the sand but when I reached down to touch the skull underneath my hand a stream of orange lizards poured out from the bone-white mouth that empty mouth reminded me of you and how I kissed you and I fell down to the bottom of a well @SONG: The Woman Downstairs 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 trains roared by under smoke-gray skies Lake Michigan rose and fell like a bird and when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue the corner bars were full by noon and the old stewbums sliding down their stools ate boiled eggs and fed beer to the dogs the woman downstairs lost all her hair and wore a beret in the laundryroom I borrowed her soap and bought her a Coke but she left it on a dryer she died in June weighing 82 her boyfriend went back to New York the cops wandered through her dusty rooms one of them stole her TV and when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue the corner bars were full by noon and the old stewbums sliding down their stools ate boiled eggs and fed beer to the dogs @SONG: Last Night I Went Out Walking last night I went out walking out on the edge of town not going no place special only wandering around I came upon a river I thought about what you said and couldn't stop it flowing and running through my head you said that I've been changing and never seemed to laugh but I can't recall the last time you smiled and it's tearing me in half I want to run and tell you the thoughts that are in my head but I don't think that you'd believe a single word I said the river's water runs so cool it calms my burning skin it takes away my aching thoughts and cleanses all my sin so let it flow on, take me down to sleep that quiet sleep and roll my body back to you my love you may always keep @SONG: Bury Me Here down that foggy road slow centipedes crawl plum blackberries fall and the ground is dark as blood down that foggy road the moon burns red as flame weeds snap in the rain dogs are dragged off in the flood bury me here in the silvery mist bury me here with the spiders and fish down that foggy road black bears crawl to sleep tree sap slowly seeps and the sunrise never come bury me here in the silvery mist bury me here with the spiders and fish @SONG: My Ghost my ghost drives around with a bag of dead fish falling neutrinos drift through the trees he staggers and reels, runs up credit card bills and clogs up the toilet with bottles of pills here in the bipolar ward if you shower you get a gold star but I'm not going far till the Haldol kicks in until then, until then I'm strapped to this fucking twin bed and I won't get any cookies or tea till I stop quoting Nietzsche and brush my teath and comb my hair days pass slow in slippers and robe but my ghost still bangs on the roof like John the Baptist in the rain while the nurses play Crazy Eights