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a rifle sits behind her sleeping ear
an echo on the cold wall closest neighbor couldn't hear
we dug a hole in the fall
so now its a frozen burial
and she's gone
just before the new year
well i'm gonna build a cross for the spot between the trees
and stick it in firm so it won't sway in their breeze
well you and i have trouble making up our half-assed minds
but she'd seen 16 years of our kind
and what's it like when your memories start to freeze
oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder
what they hear coming over the fields
backhouse shelter, warm nights in the summer
shaking the ground that you lie under
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
and i came to see you on the day that it happened
you said hey sorry Sarah but i gotta go
and i was trying to read some subtle reaction
it's something you just can't show
so i guess it's time i go
across the snowy barnyard just past the driving shed
a shadow of me in the moon
well i was in a movie in my head
this pile of dirt on the ground
will sink when nobody is around
and winter covers everything but everything's not dead
oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder
what they hear coming over the fields
backhouse shelter warm nights in the summer
shaking the ground that you lie under
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
an echo on the cold wall closest neighbor couldn't hear
we dug a hole in the fall
so now its a frozen burial
and she's gone
just before the new year
well i'm gonna build a cross for the spot between the trees
and stick it in firm so it won't sway in their breeze
well you and i have trouble making up our half-assed minds
but she'd seen 16 years of our kind
and what's it like when your memories start to freeze
oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder
what they hear coming over the fields
backhouse shelter, warm nights in the summer
shaking the ground that you lie under
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
and i came to see you on the day that it happened
you said hey sorry Sarah but i gotta go
and i was trying to read some subtle reaction
it's something you just can't show
so i guess it's time i go
across the snowy barnyard just past the driving shed
a shadow of me in the moon
well i was in a movie in my head
this pile of dirt on the ground
will sink when nobody is around
and winter covers everything but everything's not dead
oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder
what they hear coming over the fields
backhouse shelter warm nights in the summer
shaking the ground that you lie under
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
Lyrics submitted by glytter_girl
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
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