A Bitter Harvest

Let’s go hide beneath the water
Let’s escape this painful summer
I can’t bear another night
I’ll wait for you outside

And I’ve been watching through your window
And I’ve been swallowing the rain
Oh I’ve been worried about tomorrow
‘Cause everything is gonna change

Can’t you hear the locusts calling?
From the trees the birds are falling
The sky is filling up with dirt
And everything is wrong

And I’ve been watching through your window
And I’ve been swallowing the rain
Oh I’ve been worried about tomorrow
‘Cause everything is gonna change

Something is crying in the garden
The silent man is breathing with your lungs
Something is crying in the garden

Creatures moving in the river
Faces full of poison clover
In your hair I place my hands
To tear away the fear

And I’ve been watching through your window
And I’ve been swallowing the rain
Oh I’ve been worried about tomorrow
‘Cause everything is gonna change

Something is crying in the garden
The silent man is breathing with your lungs
Something is crying in the garden

How many times will you tell me these lies?
How many times will I cry?
How many times will you threaten suicide?
How many times will I cry?

I sit in bright red
In those fires that I spread
Burning bright with a new one to love
And you lay in your bed
With your gun at your head
Still desperate for my cold, selfish love

How many times will you tell me these lies?
How many times will I cry?
How many times will you threaten suicide?
How many times will I cry?

My heart’s black and blue
It’s never been true
I’ve lied and I’ve cheated on you
And now that you know
All the lies that I told
You say now your life here is through

How many times will you tell me these lies?
How many times will I cry?
How many times will you threaten suicide?
How many times will I cry?

I’ll tell you it’s true
Death’s waiting for you
How he loves those poor desperate fools
Now go on ahead
Put it right in your head
There’s a better life waiting for you
It’s better then I’ve ever given you
Yeah hell is waiting for you

There’s something in the stars tonight
There’s something in the stars
And I can’t be away from you
No more, no more
Gather up your broken bones
And gather up your tears
We’ve been on this crooked path
For years, for years

Scars upon my eyes and face
Scars upon my tongue
I don’t know what’s happening
All I know’s I’m done
With wandering

Vultures perched upon my head
And horses with no legs
How many times for my own life
I’ve begged, I’ve begged
Liquor finally got to me
Yes liquor ruined my brain
Now every night just like a hex
I call your name

Scars upon my eyes and face
Scars upon my tongue
I don’t know what’s happening
All I know’s I’m done
With wandering

You’re knee deep
But I’m up to my neck
Don’t worry baby
It’s something you wont regret
We’ll take one more breath
Before we go down
‘Cause I’ll tell you right now, baby
We were meant to drown

(Yodel)

Well we got time now
Ain’t no need to rush in
You can call me baby
But I’m a bomb that’s ticking
But I’ll take your hand
And I’ll be at your call
Just remember darling
Someday I’ll fall

(Yodel)

Cities spread like cancer ‘cross the land
I’ve had ‘bout as much as I can stand
There’s nothing that I would not do
To get revenge for what they’ve put us through

There is no escape in this world
From the things I abhor
It’s all been ruined
By the man, the machine, and the war
God damn them all, God damn them all

They’ve brought their sickness
To our haunted country
On our heads they’ve placed a handsome bounty
How long can we hide on crippled farms
Before they tear us open with their horns?

There is no escape in this world
From the things I abhor
It’s all been ruined
By the man, the machine, and the war
God damn them all, God damn them all

This illusion of endlessness is done
We’ll soon become the dust of ancient ones
Everything we feared will now unfold
The cruel hands of time have taken hold

There is no escape in this world
From the things I abhor
It’s all been ruined
By the man, the machine, and the war
God damn them all, God damn them all

It’s only the booze
That makes me feel this way
And it’s only the drugs
That make me wanna stay
This world is crashing
Fallin’ to the ground
Ain’t no need to worry
‘Cause that’s where I’ll be found

I’m tired of breakin’ those hearts
I’m tired of waking up alone
I’m tired of making
Promises I can’t hold

‘Cause it’s only the booze
That makes me feel this way
And it’s only the drugs
That make me wanna stay

It’s only the booze
That makes me feel this way
And it’s only the drugs
That make me wanna stay
I can’t go on livin’
Like tomorrow is the end
And I can’t go on livin’
With those memories in my head

I’m tired of breakin’ those hearts
I’m tired of waking up alone
I’m tired of making
Promises I can’t hold

‘Cause it’s only the booze
That makes me feel this way
And it’s only the drugs
That make me wanna stay

It comes every evening
After supper’s over
I go out a-wandering through
Darkness, darkness, darkness, darkness

Birds fly ‘round in circles
And dogs lie ‘neath the tree
Where I stumble and lose my place in the
Darkness, darkness, darkness, darkness

I just don’t care for the light of day on me
I’d rather stumble around blindly

Sometimes when I’m sleeping
And walking I find myself
Falling out the window into the
Darkness, darkness, darkness, darkness

I just don’t care for the light of day on me
I’d rather stumble around blindly

All that’s left are those who are scarred
Those who are buried and those who are burned
But those untouched, oh how they’re afraid
They watch me, and they’ll hate me, until the grave

Oh how they circle, oh Lord, how they prey
They wait for me, and they watch for me
I can’t keep them away
I try to tell myself that nothing is real
This loneliness is something no one should feel

Now don’t pity me
Don’t you feel shame
Never ever forget I’m all to blame
Oh these days are dark
But dear I’ll be fine
Never ever forget
These nightmares are mine

I’ll never know how it feels to be burned
‘Cause I’d never give in, I’d never get hurt
And I’ll never know how it feels to lose it all
And it’s all because I’ll never love

Now don’t pity me
Don’t you feel shame
Never ever forget I’m all to blame
Oh these days are dark
But dear I’ll be fine
Never ever forget
These nightmares are mine

The worst feeling I’ve ever known
That’s what I’ve been feeling today
I’m all out of drugs and all out of hope
Lord take this heartsick feeling away
‘Cause it’s hard coming home to an empty house

The dog I had I put him to rest
‘Cause he tore up the girl next door
Now I’ve got to live with that
I feel as bad as if I killed my own Pa
And it’s hard coming home to an empty house

Wish I had the courage to slit my fucking throat
Wish I had a bag of that good old fashioned dope
‘Cause it’s hard coming home to an empty house

And everyday that passes away
I might as well be falling down stairs
I don’t wanna go to heaven, I don’t wanna go to hell
Lord just let me keep a-going nowhere
‘Cause it’s hard coming home to an empty house

I lock my doors and close my blinds
And then I just sit here all night
I try to sleep but I stay awake
I know there’s something ‘bout me not right
And it’s hard coming home to an empty house

Wish I had the courage to slit my fucking throat
Wish I had a bag of that good old fashioned dope
‘Cause it’s hard coming home to an empty house

I’ve done it again
I’ve given into that sin
I’ve fallen so hard
I’m breathless again
I can’t walk that line
You know I never would
And my heart stops time
To think that I could

I can’t sleep at night
And Lord, I cry everyday
And I’ve run out of pills
That kept me sane
We all go through hard times
But Lord just ease my mind
How much longer do I have
I’m dying inside?

Everything’s alright
Everything’s okay
‘Till that moon comes shinin’
On into the day
And not a day goes by
That I’m not dead inside
What’s the point of livin’
If living’s a lie?

Now look in my eyes
Baby, don’t lie
Tell me all my happiness has died
And I got nothin’ else
And Lord I know it’s time
For me to give in
Give up and die