Death In Arkansas Lyrics - Roses At The End Of Time - Eliza Gilkyson

I remember how the wood would smell 

Just as the last great tree was felled 

Like many that came before 

It was used for table and a door 

A palette and a long hall rack 

Hung my great grandfather's hat 

A stable and a barn, a bed and a seat 

A roof and fence and a floor that creaked 

And a coffin leanin against the wall 

When there was a death in Arkansas 

I liked the wagons and the wheels 

The wind that knocked us down in the fields 

And the girls with the southern drawl 

And those that came before were the pictures on the wall 

And the lone dogs howled and the crows would caw 

When there was a death in Arkansas 

We were laid to rest out under the sun 

And we breathed our last 

And it was done 

And the air redeemed us and we would learn 

That a life was hallowed and we wouldn't burn 

Hands folded gently to say goodbye 

It was just this place underneath the sky 

Do you see our bones hidin like a toad 

In the old red dirt that is now a road 

Beneath the sign that blinks off on 

And a shopping mall where the house is gone 

Forgetting that a soul may call 

When there is a death in Arkansas 

And a quilten patch of new concrete 

Helps the trucks roll down the street 

There's a Dollar Store by the setting sun 

And a sign on the church says His Will is Done 

I can't see the birds or find the fields 

That hold my bones beneath the wheels 

And a mother worries that her son won't call 

And a tv stares at a blinking wall 

But the lone dogs howl and the crows still call 

When there is a death in Arkansas