Written by Angela Faye Martin
LYRICS
I once loved a soldier
His family gunned down in the woods
He stared out from a blanket and died
And I took down the words
I took down the words
The essence of flowers at war
Alone with the progress of man
A runaway pancake a nosebleed
A sewing machine on the land
A sewing machine on the land
A snow kissed window sill
A newspaper wet with rain
I think on the day that I met you
Never to come again
Never to come again
Oh brother I smell lightning
Sister’s in the rye
When they need water
The leaves learn to claw the sky
Leaves learn to claw the sky
Crossed factory lots and cornfields
Cities dark with light
Where knife bearing phantom found me
I couldn’t put up a fight
I couldn’t put up a fight
So now I grow checkerboard tulips
‘Neath a rusted out weather vane
I peer through over hill spires
Lest you follow a friend
Lest you follow a friend
The frogs will grow silent with boot fall
My hound he will groan low
With vision adjusted to velvet
If you come around I’ll know
You come around I’ll know
Oh brother I smell lightning
Sister’s in the rye
When they need water
The leaves learn to claw the sky
Leaves learn to claw the sky
CREDITS
Angela Faye Martin: Voice, acoustic guitar
Oleg Melnikov: Violins
PRODUCTION
Produced and engineered by Mark Linkous at Static King
Mastered by Ryan Laurie at REL Recording