The Handsome Family
Fallen Peaches
[Verse 1]
We came down the black dirt hill
'Tween the rows of blooming peaches
And we scattered leaping fawns
As we fell in to the ditches
[Verse 2]
Ahead of me ran Jackson
Who took a bullet to the chest
And beneath the swaying peaches
Jackson slowly bled to death
[Verse 3]
But as his green eyes dimmed
I saw a fiery mist
Drift softly to the clouds
From between his cold blue lips
[Verse 4]
Now my eyes were open
I stood up between the guns
I saw trails of smoke and fire
Flying everywhere I looked
[Verse 5]
Like hands of glowing light
Trailing up from fallen peaches
And around the running fawns
Leaping through the branches
[Verse 6]
Across the corpses on the hills
The sunset spread her flames
And her glowing fingers held me
As they dug my shallow grave