Muddy Hymnal
Found your name across the chapel door
Carved in cursive with a table fork
Muddy hymnals and some boot marks where you'd been
The shaking preacher told the captained man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
And pulled the shade to keep the crowd from peeking in
We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house and telling everyone you'd drowned
The begging choir told the captained man
We all assume the worst the best we can
And for a round or two they'd gladly track you down
We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
A ream of paper and a telephone
A broken bow across a long-lost violin
Your lover's angel told the captained man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm and placed it on your dreaming head
Carved in cursive with a table fork
Muddy hymnals and some boot marks where you'd been
The shaking preacher told the captained man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
And pulled the shade to keep the crowd from peeking in
We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house and telling everyone you'd drowned
The begging choir told the captained man
We all assume the worst the best we can
And for a round or two they'd gladly track you down
We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
A ream of paper and a telephone
A broken bow across a long-lost violin
Your lover's angel told the captained man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm and placed it on your dreaming head
Credits
Writer(s): Samuel Ervin Beam
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Link
Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- Light Verse
- You Never Know
- Who Can See Forever Soundtrack
- Thomas County Law (Live)
- Lori (feat. Sima Cunningham & Macie Stewart) - EP
- That's How You Know (feat. Sima Cunningham & Macie Stewart) - Single
- Archive Series Volume, No. 5: Tallahassee Recordings
- Live At Third Man Records
- Passing Afternoon (Demo)
- Weed Garden
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