Howlin Rain - The Hanging Heart lyrics

Only love and false gods live for today And burn down their own sons before they fade away The beaten light is crawling now sunk in howling disease That sad gold stone of the dust crawling from us on its knees The moon and sun will bust and rust and turn to blood and dust Yes I've seen it in my mind's eye But they'll never burn and blind and crust Like the tears of rage within your eyes Early in the morning while the snow still fell Upon our love's grave, babe, and you and I are quite dreaming And the slippery moon was the only one to shed a tear While we finished the services And buried a little madness on this earth down Sister, weigh your heart There really ain't enough gold and blood to go that far around It you ever hang it from the trees for the wolves and stinging bees I'd hack it down and gather it in my arms with me Our wild tears embalmed the black sky Until its guts burst and fell like loaded dice On our fixed game that plays and plays like murder in the night And sometime late in the cedars and pines Your life ran from you with no fire And you took the arms of a lonely d**h Early in the morning while the snow still fell Upon our love's grave, babe, and you and I are quite dreaming And the slippery moon was the only one to shed a tear While we finished the services And buried a little madness on this earth down Sister, you laid your trouble down I gathered all your heart that I could hold The rest of it is gone in the animals and earth It was best to let it crawl out of your skin, And run Aaah aah aah [x44]