a rifle sits behind her sleeping ear

an echo on the cold wall closest neighbor couldn't hear

we dug a hole in the fall

so now its a frozen burial

and she's gone

just before the new year



well i'm gonna build a cross for the spot between the trees

and stick it in firm so it won't sway in their breeze

well you and i have trouble making up our half-assed minds

but she'd seen 16 years of our kind

and what's it like when your memories start to freeze



oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder

what they hear coming over the fields

backhouse shelter warm nights in the summer

shaking the ground that you lie under

well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore



and i came to see you on the day that it happened

you said hey sorry sar but i gotta go

and i was trying to read some sorta reaction

it's something you just can't show

so i guess it's time i go



across the snowy barnyard just past the driving shed

a shadow of me in the moon well i was in a movie in my head

this pile of dirt on the ground

will sink when nobody is around

and winter covers everything but everything's not dead



oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder

what they hear coming over the fields

backhouse shelter warm nights in the summer

shaking the ground that you lie under

well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore

well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore

well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore