From the recording Beauty and Breaking
Lyrics
Kim Beggs | Lyrics from Beauty and Breaking
No Water in Their Bones
By Kim Beggs
Key C
1 5
4 4
1 5
4 4 1 1
1 5
4 4
1 5
4 4 4 4
5
3m
5
4 4 6m 6m
4 4 6m 6m
Kim Beggs - guitar, vocal
David Baxter - electric guitar, harmonium, bass string electric guitar, 3rd electric guitar
Brian Kobayakawa - bass
Roman Tome - percussion
Burke Carroll - pedal steel
Justin Rutledge - harmony vocal
Forest fire, fifty years gone
Tall charred timbers standing on
Black and blue are not what you ought to
Looking out wondering, when the rains will come
It burned and spread, like wild anger
From a man, whose pain was a dagger
Over and over and over it lingered
Left with bruises on fist and fingers
No water in their bones
No fire in their hearts
There’s nothing there to break apart
Those flowers won’t bloom after dark
Break
Something red and something stronger
Keeps you down and keeps you longer
Than you ever would, never before
And can’t get loose and can’t get more, no more
Ashes rest around pink darlings
Oh when it blows and they spread their seeds
They move and flow young pioneers bringing
Though something long ago ain’t singing
No water in their bones
No fire in their hearts
There’s nothing there to break apart
Those flowers won’t bloom after dark
Those flowers won’t bloom after dark