The Trees

from Un by Suffering, Praying Hands

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We gather here today my friends in the hills of Tennessee
We lay to rest a daughter and child and bury a wife to be
In dark and light her shadow is cast dead between the trees
May her ghost still linger on and be freed amongst the beast
There was a time before the war when she'd give her life for you
The truth of which you don't deserve yet find it to be true
We lay to rest a mother and child and bury a wife to be
In dark and light her shadow is cast dead between the trees

(chorus instrumental)

She looked at you through clear green eyes she saw as you were
She loved you still, her love was true, the truth you knew for sure
Now she's in the ground and we're gathered here to lay that love to rest
No stone to mark the place she lays, no cross above her head
Her body was found between two trees on a hillside by the lake
Strangled dead her arms outstretched and a shroud upon her face
It seems as though she suffered here a tragedy laid to waste
No cross to mark her tragic death just the trees that watch this place

(chorus instrumental)

I'm sorry to say the burden is mine, the truth it haunts my sleep
Drunk and mean I did this dark deed in the hills of Tennessee
It's a crime that no one can forgive and I don't deserve reprieve
I'd rather be carried by six than judged by twelve so I'll die in these same trees.
We lay to rest a mother and child and bury a wife to be
We remember a life lost too soon to man with a taste for whiskey
A simple life lived in these woods in the hills of Tennessee
She died as such in dark and light a shadow in the trees

(Chorus)

Our lives were short
Our luck the same
We hung like ash
Then fell like rain
Our love burnt fast
Bad moon to blame
And it collapsed
Beneath the strain

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from Un, released March 24, 2017
Lyrics by Richard Wayne Thompson and Thomas Butler

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