Uncle June & Aunt Kiyoti Lyrics - Kristin Hersh

Lying all night, screaming in pain 

Defending the cross in the Belfast rain 

The billy saw me at the end of the street 

So I lit up my torch and embraced him with heat 

Town of Aintab in 340 A.D. 

Threw me in a quarry, no way to get free 

I called on Hate to give me my life 

And he came on his black horse, obsidian knife 

Happened one night, I was lying in bed 

Eyes wide open, I could have been dead 

The sky lady came with her eyes shining bright 

And the bears and the billies and the bullies took flight 

But I called them all back 

And the sky lady too 

The bears and the billies and the bullies 

Me and you 

We laid down our bombs and bows 

And drank to their health on the Anatolian plateau 

From New Scotland to Calgary 

The geese are high and so are we 

We don't even need a map 

We're way too fast for the highway trap 

So hit the road and shine a light 

I think we're gonna find the path tonight 

Shooting star and the moon is bad 

It's the best damn omen that we ever had