The Handsome Family - "Far From Any Road" from their album "Singing Bones" (2003)
Also the official theme song of HBO series "True Detective"
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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From the dusty Mesa her looming shadow grows
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Hidden in the branches of the poison creosote
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She twines her spines up slowly
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Towards the boiling sun
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And when I touched her skin
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My fingers ran with blood
[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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In the hushing dusk under a swollen silver moon
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I came walking with the wind to watch the cactus bloom
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And strange hunger haunted me, the looming shadows danced
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I fell down to the thorny brush and felt a trembling hand
[Interlude]
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[Bridge]
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When the last light warms the rocks
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And the rattlesnakes unfold
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Mountain cats will come to drag away your bones
[Verse 3]
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And rise with me forever
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Across the silent sand
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And the stars will be your eyes
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And the wind will be my hands
[Outro]
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