Healing Bones

I'm walking forward down this ribbon of dust

'Cause where else can I go

You and 40 acres of topsoil land

Were all I ever wanted to know

It may be selective memory

But it was mine one time and it's my memory to keep

Tonight from miles away before I sleep

I'll smell something cooking on that stove

Slow down this traveller and bring him home

Take me back in that field alone

Hold me up against your healing bones

I couldn't see the meaning in it when I was there

And it's so clear to me know

What we'd been building for so many years

Ends at the sharp edge of a plow

You couldn't read my face, you had your back to me

I watched the unbelievable symmetry

You got away and I never thought you'd leave

And it's turned me inside out

Slow down this traveller and all the unknowns

Take me back in that field alone

Hold me up against your healing bones

I've heard it all about what I should do

It's all just doomed to fail

Worked in the city twelve floors up

It's just a lot of air getting stale

In darkness one night I was so confused

I thought I could make out your form as it moved

Maybe it's better to face up to the truth

But still I leave an obvious trail so you can

Slow down this traveller and bring him home

Take me out in that field alone

Hold me up against your healing bones

Hold me up against your healing bones

Hold me up against your healing bones