[Chords]
Am E Dm Am Am E Dm Am
C C G G Dm Dm F F
[Intro]
[Verse male]
From the dusty May sun
Her looming shadow grows
Hidden in the branches
of the poison creosote
She twines her spines up slowly
Towards the boiling sun
And when I touched her skin
My fingers ran with blood
[Verse female]
In the hushing dusk
Under a swollen silver moon
I came walking with the wind
To watch the cactus bloom
And strange hands halted me,
The looming shadows danced
I fell down to the thorny brush
And felt the trembling hands
[Verse]
[male]
When the last light warms the rocks
And the rattlesnakes unfold
[female]
Mountain cats will come
to drag away your bones
[both]
And rise with me forever
Across the silent sand
And the stars will be your eyes
And the wind will be my hands