Joe Henry - Sticks & Stones lyrics

rate me

Gather wood against the weather

Pile up stones against the sky

String of lights like pearls between us

And the heavens' blackest eye

Tell the hour

Go take another

Go down Moses

Without a fuss

Taken to the

Lawless water

And send that later boat for us

Chorus:

Sticks and stones

Blood ash and bone

I shake the tree

Swim out alone

Turnin' over the dark Missouri

Now that every new leaf I had

Is gone

Moon's near empty, a swinging saber

Keeping every prayer at bay

At the throat of love for ransom

From the dull approaching day

There's no law

That rides this border

No fences stretch this far

To show

How times will side

Against another

As one arrives and others go

(Chorus)

Whores are dressed in fire and feathers

On a beach, sit in a row

Climb the bank through scrub and tinder

Disappear where rabbits go

They had nothing

That I needed

But I gave them

All I had

Just to share

Some dirt between them

As we waited, smoked and laughed

(Chorus)

Now that every new leaf I had is gone x3