Okkervil River - Dead Dog Song lyrics

Sam, bless him, has died and left this home The woodchucks running wild, the bushes overgrown Slip unseen into the skein of trees Slide through dusky gra**es and scatter his ashes Oh, it's all over, he ain't ever coming back There'll be no more roaming He was only here for fourteen years And now the branches scratch my face and I can't hold back my tears Long ago I'd see him running in the snow He'd come in from the cold and he'd lie down by the stove Pa** along this loping road The needley grasp of briars on the slope Oh, it's all over, he ain't ever coming back There'll be no more roaming He was only here for fourteen years And now the branches scratch my face and I can't hold back my tears He ain't ever been to church, so he doesn't have a soul He ain't waiting at the place where all of us will go But the woodchucks wouldn't run so wild The gra**es wouldn't be so grown if we were not alone Bound unbound through boundless air, remaining wisps of hair Barking out through everywhere The trees, the gra**, the rain And Sam in the air Oh, it's all over, he ain't ever coming back There'll be no more roaming He was in this world, by my side he was curled But he came uncurled and this world holds him that much tighter That much tighter, that much tighter That much tighter, that much tighter, that much tighter Tighter, tighter, tighter Tighter, tighter, tighter, tighter, oh