Greensky Bluegrass - Murder of Crows lyrics

She wrote you a letter
You ain't never read it
Sat out on your doorstep since the
Day that she sent it she had lots to say but
The words just blew away
The letters got replaced with
Things she didn’t say

Nail a crow to the fence
And behold death's romance
The rest of the murder bear
Witness from the telephone wires
Lost lovers and friends
Well they will all attend
With roses and incense on the funeral pyre

She wrote it all down with an eagle's feather
Dipped in cocaine and blood
A diamond needle on a broken record
Of a melody never sung

You stumbled for hours over
Pages with gilded edges
Ink and newsprint smeared with cliffs
Sharp ledges the image you saw
Out of focus and out of turn
An envelope left in the light
Of the rising moon

She wrote it all down with an eagle’s feather
Dipped in cocaine and blood
A diamond needle on a broken record
Of a melody never sung

Time has left a handful of tear-stained pages
Washed out memories left lost and faded
You've called out her name
Only left unsettled
A lone phonograph, a thousand unspoken words

She wrote it all down with an eagle's feather
Dipped in cocaine and blood
A diamond needle on a broken record
Of a melody never sung