My Father's Body Lyrics - Blood Oranges In The Snow - Over The Rhine

My father's body lies beneath the snow 

High on a hill in Holmes County, Ohio 

From there you can look out across the fields 

A farmer guides his horses home as day to darkness bends 

And finally yields 

Dad's gravestone holds the words Be Still My Soul 

A song we sang together long ago 

And there were times we even shared one hymnbook 

His right hand and my left hand side-by-side holding pages 

Of music 

But now his hands hold nothing but the earth 

Hands that held me moments after my birth 

And so we must all finally surrender 

As we release our grip upon whatever we hold dear 

And call familiar 

My father's body lies beneath the snow 

And I'm still learning how to let him go 

I've come to know him better since he's gone 

And often wondered if or how I could've been a different 

Better son