Prairie Melancholy Lyrics - One To The Heart, One To The Head - Gretchen Peters

The moment we said good bye 

Silence tore across the sky 

The riverbed lay wide and dry 

As far as I could see 

And someone said 

My ghost was found 

Laying her burden down 

Taking the long way around 

Underneath the moon. 

Somewhere on the prairie, 

A little cross is mine. 

A simple wooden marker 

With a plastic rose entwined. 

And in the stillness of the twilight 

As the tumbleweeds wind 

I am crawling like a scorpion 

Across the melancholy time. 

So shred the poems 

Let the wild birds chase them in the breeze 

Let them make their nests 

From words like please 

Put those dreams to rest 

Throw them at the moon 

Blow the confetti across 

The golden west. 

I was the fragrance in the wild flower 

Opening for only you 

In the delicate hour 

Before the cold shot through. 

Ten thousand years from now 

You'll put your hand in mine 

Remembering a fragrance 

Full of melancholy time. 

You see those ravens breaking the prairie sky? 

We used to go where ravens fly 

Our giddy laughter made the angels cry 

To fly as free as you and I. 

Somewhere on the prairie 

A cross, a rose, a shrine 

Standing for true love 

Gone before its time. 

There goes your shadow down the highway 

Out that road I could't find 

While I crawl like a scorpion 

Slowly to the new world 

Across these miles of prairie 

Full of melancholy time.