a rifle sits behind her sleeping ear
an echo on the cold wall closest neighbor couldn\'t hear
we dug a hole in the fall
so now its a frozen burial
and she\'s gone
just before the new year

well i\'m gonna build a cross for the spot between the trees
and stick it in firm so it won\'t sway in their breeze
well you and i have trouble making up our half-assed minds
but she\'d seen 16 years of our kind
and what\'s it like when your memories start to freeze

oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder
what they hear coming over the fields
backhouse shelter warm nights in the summer
shaking the ground that you lie under
well i know you\'re not here but at least you don\'t feel it anymore

and i came to see you on the day that it happened
you said hey sorry sar but i gotta go
and i was trying to read some sorta reaction
it\'s something you just can\'t show
so i guess it\'s time i go

across the snowy barnyard just past the driving shed
a shadow of me in the moon well i was in a movie in my head
this pile of dirt on the ground
will sink when nobody is around
and winter covers everything but everything\'s not dead

oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder
what they hear coming over the fields
backhouse shelter warm nights in the summer
shaking the ground that you lie under
well i know you\'re not here but at least you don\'t feel it anymore
well i know you\'re not here but at least you don\'t feel it anymore
well i know you\'re not here but at least you don\'t feel it anymore