Bed of Heather

from RACEHORSES by Stranger Killings

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Bed of Heather

Darling, put the knife down
We can just get out of town
There’s gotta be a place to go
We’ll change our names
So no one knows

Darling, put the knife down
We’ll leave tonight
Without a sound
We’ll get married
And we’ll settle down
And live a life that’s free

I cannot put down the knife
I can never be your wife
Even if we built another life
All our sins would still be sins
And we’d see it in our children’s grins
I cannot put the knife down
Though it’s to you my heart is bound
We could never live a life that’s free

Chorus
Come with me
And you will see
That I’ll love you forever

I can not go
And you must know
We can never be together

Just lie down
Next to me
Upon this lovely bed of heather

I cannot put the knife down
I’ll never wear a wedding gown
I will never wear your ring
I’ll never hear the bells sing
It’s time we felt the blade’s sting

There’s no one I love more than thee
Lie down in this bed of heather
And die next to me

CHORUS

If you cannot put the knife down
Put on our mother’s wedding gown
And I’ll lie beside you on the ground
We can listen to the birds sing
And then we’ll feel the blade’s sting
And we will die together
Upon this lovely bed of heather

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from RACEHORSES, released February 14, 2016

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