[Verse 1]
Cold stone
Copper sky
Salt on my lips
Air tastes like endings
Like names you forget
Red walls lean inward
Listening hard
Boot prints like bruises
On the skin of the dark
[Chorus]
Dead Horse Valley
Breath caught in the gorge
Tongue of the river
Silver as a sword
I leave my shadow
Hung on the cedar tree
Dead Horse Valley
You sing the loss in me
[Verse 2]
Wind combs the sagebrush
Slow
Ancient hands
Sand crawls in circles
Erasing my plans
Far cliff
A raven
Carves through the blue
One rough syllable
Sounds a lot like you
[Chorus]
Dead Horse Valley
Breath caught in the gorge
Tongue of the river
Silver as a sword
I leave my shadow
Hung on the cedar tree
Dead Horse Valley
You sing the loss in me
[Bridge]
[Wordless vocal drone
Low and close]
(ohh-ahh, ohh-ahh)
Low hum in my chest
Old song in my teeth
I taste iron
I taste rain
I taste what I can’t keep
[Chorus]
Dead Horse Valley
Breath caught in the gorge
Tongue of the river
Silver as a sword
I leave my shadow
Hung on the cedar tree
Dead Horse Valley
You sing the rest of me