My Friend - The Handsome Family

I swear I heard a bird high in the chestnut trees

The sun was so bright, that bird I couldn’t see

No matter where I stood I couldn’t see beak or wing

Just burning, blinding leaves, still and silent trees

Were you with me then my friend?

Are you with me now?

When that cement truck, the mixer turning slow

Drove right past me dripping in the road

That swollen body spinning in circles

I stopped and watched it roll, roll and groan

Were you with me then, my friend?

Are you with me now?

When I swam alone that night, late summer dusk

The air so warm and still, the water wide and dark

Something brushed against me, I splashed and kicked in fright

Such cold hands upon me, underwater vines

Were you with me then, my friend?

Are you with me now?