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My Sister's Tiny Hands
Andrew Bird
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We came in this world together
Legs wrapped around each other
My cheek against my sister's
We were born like tangled vine
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And we lived along the river
Where the black clouds never lingered
And the sunlight spread like honey
Through my sister's tiny hands
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But while picking sour apples
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In the wild waving grasses
Sister stumbled in the briar
And was bitten by a snake
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Every creature casts a shadow
Under the sun's golden fingers
And as the sun sinks past the waving grass
Some shadows are dragged along
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So alone, I took to drinking
Bottles of cheap whiskey
And staggering through the back woods
Killing snakes with a sharpened stick
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But still I heard her laughing
In the wild waving grasses
Still her tiny hands went splashing
At the river's sparkling shore
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So I took my rusty gas can
And an old iron shovel
I set the woods to blaze
And choked the river up with stones
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Every creature casts a shadow
Under the sun's golden fingers
And as the sun sinks past the waving grass
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Some shadows are dragged along
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