My Sister's Tiny Hands-The Handsome Family

[ti:My Sister's Tiny Hands] [ar:The Handsome Family] [al:Live at Schuba's Tavern] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]My Sister's Tiny Hands - The Handsome Family [00:07.85]We came in this world together [00:12.51] [00:13.97]Legs wrapped around each other [00:18.35] [00:19.06]My cheek against my sister's [00:21.54]We were born like tangled vine [00:23.33] [00:30.05]We lived along the river [00:35.23]Where the black clouds never lingered [00:40.88]The sunlight spread like honey [00:43.43]Through my sister's tiny hands [00:45.09] [00:51.59]But while picking sour apples [00:56.97]In the wild waving grasses [01:00.68] [01:02.29]Sister stumbled in the briar [01:05.39]And was bitten by a snake [01:07.87] [01:13.34]Every creature casts a shadow [01:18.72]Under the sun's golden fingers [01:22.58] [01:23.89]But when the sun sinks past the waving grass [01:30.26]Some shadows are dragged along [01:34.28] [01:38.39]Alone I took to drinking [01:42.64] [01:44.07]Bottles of cheap whiskey [01:47.86] [01:49.05]And staggering through the back woods [01:51.91]Killing snakes with a sharpened stick [01:53.90] [02:00.17]But still I heard her laughing [02:04.59] [02:05.20]In those wild waving grasses [02:09.95] [02:10.54]Still her tiny hands went splashing [02:13.25]At the river's sparkling shore [02:16.41] [02:21.49]So I took my rusty gas can [02:26.36] [02:26.99]And an old iron shovel [02:32.06] [02:32.76]I set the woods to burning [02:35.25]And choked the river up with stones [02:37.68] [02:43.42]Every creature casts a shadow [02:48.47]Under the sun's golden fingers [02:52.55] [02:53.94]But when the sun sinks past the waving grass [02:59.96]Some shadows are dragged along