My Sister’s Tiny Hands The Handsome Family

[Verse 1]
We came in this world together
Legs wrapped around each other
My cheek against my sister's
We were born like tangled vines

We lived along the river
Where the black clouds never lingered
The sunlight spread like honey
Through my sister's tiny hands

[Bridge]
But while picking sour apples
In the wild waving grasses
Sister stumbled in the briar
And was bitten by a snake

[Chorus]
Every creature casts a shadow
Under the sun's golden fingers
But when the sun sinks past the waving grass
Some shadows are dragged along

[Verse 2]
Alone, I took to drinking
Bottles of cheap whiskey
And staggering through the backwoods
Killing snakes with a sharpened stick