Gallows

CocoRosie

It was just before the moon hung
Her weary, heavy hating
the gallows and the graves hold
the milky, milky cradle
His tears have turned to poppies
shimmer in the midnight
Flower in the twilight
a Flower in the twilight

And our screaming
is in his screaming
our screaming in
the willow

They took him to the gallows,
He fought them all the way though,
And When they asked us how we knew his name
We died just before him
our eyes are in the flowers
our hands are in the branches
our voices in the breezes

And our screaming
is in his screaming
our screaming in
the willow tree

We're waiting by the willow
our milky, milky cradle
our lockets long have rusted
his picture worn and weathered
our hair is in the garden
our voices in mitosis
our wombs are in the blossoms
our arms are in the branches

And our screaming
is in his screaming
our screaming in
the willow tree

And our screaming
is in his screaming
our screaming in
the willow


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    it was just before the moon hung
her weary heavy head in
the gallows and the graves of
the milky milky cradle
his tears have turned to poppies
a shimmer in the midnight
a flower in the twilight
a flower in the twilight
and our screaming
in his screaming
our screaming in the willow

    they took him to the gallows he fought them all the way through and when they asked us how we knew his name we died just before him our eyes are in the flowers our hands are in the branches our voices in the breezes (and our screaming... we're waiting by the willow our milky milky cradle our lockets long have rusted his picture worn and weathered our hair is in the garden the roses in our toeses our ears are in the blossoms our eyes are in the branches

    kimberlyOon June 11, 2010   Link

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