Lyrics The Handsome Family

The Handsome Family

Our Blue Sky

Why do you dream of pearly white gates

High in the air where no bird flies?

No tree grows beyond the sky

Our blue sky

Why do you dream that worms and dogs

Hills and clouds are not like you?

Burning light that never dies

Our blue, spinning sky

Why do you leave a trail of death?

Air turns brown, trees fall down

Burn green fields and drive on by

Our blue sky

Could you love God if he didn't love you

More than rivers, snakes, or wind?

Could you share Heaven with black buzzing flies?

Our blue, spinning sky

What if this dream you dream with pigs

You dream with dirt and this is home?

Is it so wrong to love this light?

Our blue sky

Why do you leave a trail of death?

Air turns brown, trees fall down

Burn green fields and drive on by

Our blue sky