My Sister's Tiny Hands Lyrics - Through The Trees - Handsome Family

We came in this world together 

Legs wrapped around each other 

My cheek against my sister's 

We were born like tangled vine 

We lived along the river 

Where the black clouds never lingered 

The sunlight spread like honey 

In my sister's tiny hands 

But while picking sour apples 

In the wild waving grasses 

Sister stumbled in the brier 

And was bitten by a snake 

Every creature casts a shadow under the sun's golden finger 

But when the sun sinks past the waving grass 

Some shadows are dragged along 

Alone, I took to drinking bottles of cheap whiskey 

And staggering through the back woods 

Killing snakes with a sharpened stick 

But still I heard her laughing 

In those wild waving grasses 

Still her tiny hands went splashing at the river's sparkling shore 

So I took my rusty gas can 

And an old iron shovel 

I set the woods to burning 

And choked the river up with stones 

Every creature casts a shadow under the sun's golden finger 

But when the sun sinks past the waving grass 

Some shadows are dragged along