The Handsome Family My Sisterss Tiny Hands Kraakpand 5. 4

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 But while picking sour apples In the wild waving grasses Sister stumbled in the briar And was bitten by a snake Every creature casts a shadow under the sun s golden fingers And as the sun sinks past the waving grass Some shadows are dragged along Alone, I took to drinking Bottles of cheap whiskey And staggering through the back woods Killing snakes with a sharpened stick Oh, but still I heard her laughing In those wild waving grasses Still her tiny hands went splashing at the river s sparkling shore So I took my rusty gas can And an old iron shovel And I set the woods to blaze And choked the river up with stones Every creature casts a shadowunder the sun s golden finger But when the sun sinks past the waving grass Some shadows are dragged along