《Death in Arkansas》歌词

[00:00:14] I remember how the wood would smell

[00:00:19] Just as the last great tree was felled

[00:00:23] Like many that came before

[00:00:26] It was used for table and a door

[00:00:29] A palette and a long hall rack

[00:00:33] Hung my great grandfather's hat

[00:00:37] A stable and a barn, a bed and a seat

[00:00:43] A roof and fence and a floor that creaked

[00:00:50] And a coffin leanin against the wall

[00:00:54] When there was a death in Arkansas

[00:01:10] I liked the wagons and the wheels

[00:01:13] The wind that knocked us down in the fields

[00:01:16] And the girls with the southern drawl

[00:01:20] And those that came before were the pictures on the wall

[00:01:25] And the lone dogs howled and the crows would caw

[00:01:29] When there was a death in Arkansas

[00:01:35] We were laid to rest out under the sun

[00:01:39] And we breathed our last

[00:01:40] And it was done

[00:01:42] And the air redeemed us and we would learn

[00:01:47] That a life was hallowed and we wouldn't burn

[00:01:52] Hands folded gently to say goodbye

[00:01:56] It was just this place underneath the sky

[00:02:00] Do you see our bones hidin like a toad

[00:02:04] In the old red dirt that is now a road

[00:02:10] Beneath the sign that blinks off on

[00:02:13] And a shopping mall where the house is gone

[00:02:20] Forgetting that a soul may call

[00:02:24] When there is a death in Arkansas

[00:02:55] And a quilten patch of new concrete

[00:02:59] Helps the trucks roll down the street

[00:03:02] There's a Dollar Store by the setting sun

[00:03:05] And a sign on the church says His Will is Done

[00:03:13] I can't see the birds or find the fields

[00:03:17] That hold my bones beneath the wheels

[00:03:23] And a mother worries that her son won't call

[00:03:28] And a tv stares at a blinking wall

[00:03:34] But the lone dogs howl and the crows still call

[00:03:39] When there is a death in Arkansas