Death in Arkansas-Eliza Gilkyson

[ti:Death in Arkansas] [ar:Eliza Gilkyson] [al:Roses At The End Of Time] [00:00.76] [00:14.19]I remember how the wood would smell [00:19.15]Just as the last great tree was felled [00:23.18]Like many that came before [00:26.33]It was used for table and a door [00:29.67]A palette and a long hall rack [00:33.24]Hung my great grandfather's hat [00:37.47]A stable and a barn, a bed and a seat [00:43.90]A roof and fence and a floor that creaked [00:50.03] [00:50.59]And a coffin leanin against the wall [00:54.30]When there was a death in Arkansas [00:59.35] [01:10.35]I liked the wagons and the wheels [01:13.23]The wind that knocked us down in the fields [01:16.58]And the girls with the southern drawl [01:20.35]And those that came before were the pictures on the wall [01:25.43]And the lone dogs howled and the crows would caw [01:29.30]When there was a death in Arkansas [01:33.96] [01:35.08]We were laid to rest out under the sun [01:39.07]And we breathed our last [01:40.67]And it was done [01:42.31]And the air redeemed us and we would learn [01:47.11]That a life was hallowed and we wouldn't burn [01:52.64]Hands folded gently to say goodbye [01:56.73]It was just this place underneath the sky [02:00.21]Do you see our bones hidin like a toad [02:04.01]In the old red dirt that is now a road [02:10.14]Beneath the sign that blinks off on [02:13.96]And a shopping mall where the house is gone [02:20.74]Forgetting that a soul may call [02:24.19]When there is a death in Arkansas [02:28.97] [02:55.63]And a quilten patch of new concrete [02:59.17]Helps the trucks roll down the street [03:02.35]There's a Dollar Store by the setting sun [03:05.83]And a sign on the church says His Will is Done [03:13.38]I can't see the birds or find the fields [03:17.84]That hold my bones beneath the wheels [03:23.13]And a mother worries that her son won't call [03:28.87]And a tv stares at a blinking wall [03:34.10]But the lone dogs howl and the crows still call [03:39.32]When there is a death in Arkansas [03:44.25]