Head was hung low And your sandals, much older As the record spins, time tiptoes back Bones on a thread, far from your shoulders Stitch in the seam between the earth and the sky
You're wearing the soul of a coalminer's daughter Down in a hole singing your song A kick in the wind, back in some holler Patching up holes in the setting sun
We are the ones that came by the needle Stuck in a groove cut by your hand Wrapped in a cloak and safe in the shadows A cavalry's arc casts over the land
Tracks in the south, and the hit of the silence The kiss of death, then the palest blue Seventh hope that grows for to warn us Morphine girl and the sorta truth We are the ones that came by the needle Stuck in a groove cut by your hand Wrapped in a cloak and safe in the shadows A cavalry's arc casts over the land