My Sister’s Tiny Hands

[Verse 1]
We came in this world together
Legs wrapped around each other
My cheek against my sister's
We were born like tangled vines

We lived along the river
Where the black clouds never lingered
The sunlight spread like honey
Through my sister's tiny hands

[Bridge]
But while picking sour apples
In the wild waving grasses
Sister stumbled in the briar
And was bitten by a snake

[Chorus]
Every creature casts a shadow
Under the sun's golden fingers
But when the sun sinks past the waving grass
Some shadows are dragged along

[Verse 2]
Alone, I took to drinking
Bottles of cheap whiskey
And staggering through the backwoods
Killing snakes with a sharpened stick

But still I heard her laughing
In those wild waving grasses
Still her tiny hands went splashing at the river's sparkling shore

[Bridge]
So I took my rusty gas can
And an old iron shovel
I set the woods to burning
And choked the river up with stones

[Chorus]
Every creature casts a shadow
Under the sun's golden fingers
But when the sun sinks past the waving grass
Some shadows are dragged along