| The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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In the first verse a man goes into the desert when the sun is boiling hot. He is drawn there by the spiney cactus clinging to a poison tree. When he touches the cactus it cuts him and he bleeds. In the second verse we learn he falls to the ground, perhaps poisoned by the cactus. In the second verse a woman goes into the desert when the moon is full. She is drawn there by a strange hunger. She is overcome and falls down into thorny brush where she feels the trembling hand of the man who came before her. They die together beneath the mysterious cactus and the mountain cats drag their bones away. But in the last verse their spirits rise together over the silent sand and they live forever as forces of nature, she in the starlight, he in the wind. |
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