Blackbirds (Reprise)

The blackbirds came at dusk and they roosted in the cane

Raised such a ruckus that it shook my windowpane

And I’m covered up in dirt and I stink of kerosene

And no matter what I do I can’t get clean

Last thing I remember was your footsteps in the hall

Whisky in your voice and a shotgun on the wall

Now there’s shadows in the shadows, there’s trouble in the cane

And there’s things you do that you just can’t explain

Uneasy lies the head – unfaithful is the heart

Ungrateful and unlucky and untrue

And no one saw me coming, and no one saw me go

Only the blackbirds and you

Come harvest in the cane fields the sky turns black with smoke

So I took our father’s gun and a heavy piece of rope

And I left you lying there like rotten fruit upon the ground

And I lit a torch and I burned the whole thing down

Our father was a farmer he planted fields of cane

He planted seeds of evil and we harvested the shame

Oh but I’m the last one standing there’s no one left to tell

And when it’s my time I’ll see you both in hell