The Winding Sheet

(lanegan/johnson)

Water will forgive me, i'm just tryin' to forget
Starin' at the water as the waves turn ruby red
Remembering
Fear and paranoia run together in my dreams
Water will accept me give me a peace i've never seen
Remembering
Wrap your arms around me
And i'm as light as anything
Through the air i can't breathe
Your lips form a curious smile
Water will forgive me for everything i never should
Water will accept me for all the things i never could
Wrap your arms around me
And i'm as light as anything
Through the air i can't breathe

(lanegan/johnson)

Saw god staring from the wall
I was alone and lost
Here to take me from this world
Still alone and lost

Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close

Saw a ghost in the shadows smile
I was sick in my soul
All tied up in a winding sheet
Still sick in my soul

Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close

With the setting sun(3x's)

Tired i lay me back on thorns
Full of fear in my head
Lay me back so i could not rise
Full of fear in my head

Night when the dogs from hell come out
Roam my house in chains of gold
The darkness dares my eyes to close
With the setting sun
Rose with the setting sun

With the setting sun
The night is born, my time has come
With the setting sun
With the setting sun
Jesus touch my hand
Please touch my hand
Please touch my hand
With the setting sun

my girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
I would shiver all night through

Her husband was a hard-workin' man
Til a mile and a half from here
His head was found in a dried up well
And his body never was found

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me
Tell me where did you sleep last night
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun never shines
I would shiver all night through
(shiver for me now)

My girl, my girl, where will you go
I'm goin' where the cold winds blow
In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver all night through

(lanegan/johnson)

Your voice is a mockingbird
Calling me when the day is gone
You please yourself with every word
Telling me where i'm going wrong
Telling me where i've gone wrong

Get me out it's starting to burn
I can't let go for the life of me
Some hold tight, and some turn
Another fire out in front of me
My whole life out in front of me

You can't kill what's already dead
But i don't blame you for trying it
The sun comes up and falls away
Two little birds makin' sense of it
Two mockingbirds making sense of it

(lanegan)

I have to watch you come back to earth
Now it's all i can do
Will you still be convinced wild flowers
Are waiting for you

In my mind i've done good things
And never cared why
And my mind is an open door, with nothing inside

Looks like the autumn is upon us
It's turnin' so cold
When everything said's either faded out
Or written in stone

If you could find an easier road, you'd take it today
You could have taken me anywhere
You just take it away

I have to watch you come back to earth
If it's all i can do
Will you still be convinced wild flowers
Are waiting for you

Have we ever done good things
And never cared why
'cause my mind is an open door, with nothing inside

(lanegan/johnson)

I feel your blood run cold
And it's a rainy sunday morning
I count the million miles i'm driftin'
From here, to hell
Today

Behind their windows people stare
Can't recognize the kindness there
Just prayers for drownin' ships at sea
None for me
And you

It'll take a hard rain to wash your taste away
Still i wish there was a reason left to stay

I'm drunk half blind
And it's an ugly sunday morning
The wind arrives with the clouds refusing to break
Apart, like me
Why if all the world's stopped turnin'
How can all this rain keep fallin'
Washin' me a million miles away
From you

Why if i'm so alone now
Is it getting hard, to say goodbye now
Goodbye now