Mark Lanegan Band

St. Louis Elegy

Mark Lanegan Band


I look at the sky
I see an airplane as it flies

Is this the way 
They said Jesus came?
Gone through St. Louis
Gone straightaway

And I hear the winter 
Will cut you quick
If tears were liquor 
I'd have drunk myself sick

Woman, are you home?
A house of cards 
A frame of bones

Here I am 
Earthly bound
Said hallelujah 
I'm going down

And the River Jordan 
Is deep and wide
I think I see forever 
Across on the other side

I look at the sky
I see a nightbird 
As it flies

Over the old 
Bent cherry trees
Shivering in a row

Down here the winter 
Will cut you quick
These tears are liquor 

And I've drunk myself sick

And the dead of winter 
Will cut you quick
These tears are liquor 

And I've drunk myself sick