Blood

Older brother, restless soul, lie down Lie for a while with your ear against the earth And you'll hear your sister sleep talking saying your hair is long But not long enough to reach home to me But your beard someday might be And she woke up in a cold sweat on the floor Next to a family portrait drawn when you were four And beside a jar of 2 cent coins that are no good no more She'll lay it aside Older father, weary soul, you'll drive Back to the home you made on the mountainside With that ugly terrible thing With papers for divorce and a lonely ring A lonely ring Sit on your porch And pluck your strings Oh, and you'll find somebody you can blame And you'll find a creak that runs out into the sea And you'll find the peace of the Lord Grandfather, weary soul, you'll fly Through your life once more before you die Since our grandma passed away You've waited for forever and a day Just to die And someday soon you will die Oh, it was the only woman you ever loved That got burnt by the sun to often when she was young And the cancer spread, it ran into her body and her blood And there is nothing you can do about it now