Frontier Ruckus - Mona and emmy lyrics

Mona's buying milk and honey from the summer bins in Milford Market Outside the door at six, the green bulb clicks On I work nine to five around the hiss of the ice box compartment When I punch out I want to set the night to bitter flames a-lickin' The town and all the pa**ion strickened down And Emmy's twenty years removed now, from that morning in July When her father held her in his arms And dipped her freckled neck down' 'neath the river water as flies Were darkening the brightness And all of the baptismal whiteness But darlin' all those of our likeness Were born so very ready to live And to die I know my way through the neighborhoods From Mona's house to the interstate I know my way to the greatest things we got They're old and dirty, surely The travelin' acts they leave their sounds For railroad tracks in other towns But I want to hold to something longer Something meaner, something stronger For at eleven thirty the town's alone, again And Emmy used to say she loved me Used to be oh so proud of me When she saw her father in my eyes When I dipped her golden head down 'neath the river water swimmin' The pine shine all was dimmin' The kitchen panes were pitch-dark within And I thought we were only kidding till Your father cried Mona, you're my only friend, we could take the interstate; Though you know the interstate deadends Will it lead us to the milk and honey Is the Promised Land just a funny Way to say the strangeness never ceases? 'Cause Emmy, you have baptized me to pieces