Emily Shore 1819-1839 letra

She'd been coughing up blood since the dogwoods
Bloomed seventeen that spring and confined to her room
At night her heart pounded holes in her chest
Death, like a bird, was building its nest
She'd laughed at the graveyard on one sip of wine
And kept a pet duck till the cat crushed its spine
But, waltzing one night in a red velvet dress
She noticed a whistling down in her chest

Propped up on pillows, she watched the snow fall
Trying to picture an end to it all
By spring there'd be picnics and merry-go-rounds
But she'd be nothing but bones in the ground
And so, on the last day of her short life
Emily called for her father's penknife
She sawed at her head till the floor pooled with hair
And braided a watch chain for father (mother) to wear

The Handsome Family - Letras

• 24-Hour Store
• 3-Legged Dog
• A Beautiful Thing
• A Dark Eye
• A Shadow Underneath
• A Thousand Diamond Rings
• After We Shot The Grizzly...
• All The Time In Airports...
• Amelia Earhart Vs The Dancing Bear
• Arlene
• Back In My Day
• Beautiful William...
• Birds You Can Not See
• Bowling Alley Bar....
• Bury Me Here
• Caterpillars
• Cathedrals
• Claire Said
• Cold, Cold, Cold
• Darling, My Darling
• Don't Be Scared
• Down In The Ground
• Down In The Valley Of Hollow Logs
• Down In The Winding Corn Maze
• Drunk By Noon
• Dry Bones
• Eels
• Emily Shore 1819-1839
• Everything That Rises Must Converge
• Fallen Peaches
• Far From Any Road
• Flapping Your Broken Wings...
• Flies
• Frogs
• Gail With The Golden Hair
• Gentlemen
• Giant Ant
• Glow Worm
• Gold
• Gorilla
• Grandmother Waits For You
• Gravity
• Green Willow Valley
• Gulls
• Here's Hopin
• Hunter Green...
• I Fell
• I Know You Are There
• If The World Should End In Fire
• If The World Should End In Ice
• In The Air
• June Bugs
• King Of Dust
• Lake Geneva
• Last Night I Went Out Walking
• Lie Down
• Linger, Let Me Linger
• Little Sparrows
• Lizard
• Love Is Like
• Moving Furniture Around
• My Beautiful Bride
• My Friend
• My Ghost
• My Sister's Tiny Hands
• No One Fell Asleep Alone
• No.1 Country Song
• Octopus
• One Way Up
• Our Blue Sky...
• Owls
• Passenger Pigeons
• Peace In The Valley Once Again
• Pony
• Poor, Poor Lenore
• Sleepy
• So Long
• So Much Wine
• Somewhere Else To Be
• Spider
• Stalled
• Tesla's Hotel Room...
• The Bottomless Hole
• The Dutch Boy
• The Forgotten Lake
• The Giant Of Illinois
• The House Carpenter
• The King Who Wouldn't Smile
• The Last
• The Loneliness Of Magnets
• The Petrified Forest
• The Red Door
• The Sad Milkman
• The Sea Rose
• The Silver Light
• The Snow White Diner
• The Song Of a Hundred Toads
• The Woman Downstairs
• There Is a Sound
• These Golden Jewels...
• Tin Foil
• Tiny Tina
• Trial Of Time
• Tvs In Town
• Underneath The Falls
• Up Falling Rock Hill
• Water Into Wine
• Weightless Again
• When That Helicopter Comes
• When You Whispered
• Where The Birch Trees Lean
• White Dog
• White Lights
• Whitehaven
• Wild Wood
• Wildebeest
• Winnebago Skeletons
• Woodpecker