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Something broke through the brindled soil
Rattling the grass
Spittin' like coal
My spade came down across his spine
a terrible fear flew across his eyes
I said we both have lives that we are owed
You can own an acre, but not what it grows
I gave no heed when I got in,
Had bread and tea and then the beast got skinned
Diamond skin on a hickory post
Blowin' like a curse in the knee high rows
I never in my life had seen
the kind of rain we got that spring
A flood washed up every rainbow snake
And I was soon begging them to let me stay
They gave no heed when I got in,
they said You can hunt hares in our garden.
You can hunt hares in our garden.
Who will love a loveless thing
Betrayed by God, exiled by beast
I can hear you in the floorboards deep in the night
You could have freed me and redeemed your life
- Album:
- Singing Ax
- Vacilando Territory Blues
- Year In The Kingdom
- Beneath the Surface, Volume 24: A Bella Union Sampler
- I Will Return
- I Will Return - Long May You Run
- Documented
- I Will Return / Long May You Run, J. Tillman
- Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via the Great Unknown
- Wild Honey Never Stolen / Borne Away On a Black Barge
- Long May You Run, J. Tillman
- Minor Works
- Folk Music for the End of the World
- Cancer and Delirium
- Long May You Run: 15 Tracks in the Key of Neil
- Mojo Presents: New Harvest
- Ioda SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2009
- Wild Honey Never Stolen
- Sonically Speaking, Volume 49: Oktober 2009
- Collection Été 2006 (disc 2)