Rag & Bone

This is the last ditch ever i dug
Once there were motives but they have been lost
Dig through the sand still you end at the rock
This is the ditch that i dug

These are the blankets that we should have worn
Now marrow is soaking and taken with cold
Us rag and bone merchants have just greed to lose
This is the ditch that i dug

The ditch it lies empty and waits for your laugh
My head was your shovel and i was your back
And sweat made the river that cut through the flat
This is the ditch that i dug
This is the ditch that i dug

The crows haven't eaten the scraps they were fed
The crows they stay honest and keep to themselves
Their silence infected my stitches gone loose
There will be rain today, yes
There will be rain today

Lose your coat and roll your sleeves
This is demolition time
Inventions full of spit and blood
With blinders for the faint of heart
Fortune's ashes crowd this map
But if i lose, well i don't care
As long as i get good and gone

Let the anvil break
Steal door lies into a whisper
Now who can wait for the perfect fit
I'm hearing the anvil sing
I'm hearing the anvil sing

Machine he took a picture of
Of himself for children's walls
For forty miles the word went out
That he would someday drown us all
Deep inside this vodka clear

But if i lose then i don't care
As long as i get good and gone

Let the anvil break
Steal door lies into a whisper
Now who can wait for the perfect fit
I'm hearing the anvil sing
I'm hearing the anvil sing

Let the anvil break
Steal door lies into a whisper
This is demolition time
And if i lose, well i don't care
I'm hearing the anvil sing
I'm hearing the anvil sing

Steal it from the yard
Medicine hat she wore
Mother's protection
Protection from the open sun
What is gone was never here
And what is here is second-hand

Trust in only shadows
'cause they never know they're wrong
Steal it from the yard
Medicine hat she wore
What is gone was never here
And what is here is second-hand

Medicine hat
Medicine hat

You could all but disappear
At the drunk electric show
Just fall into the whirlpool
That's spinning on the grange hall floor
Then go outside and burn the fence
That splits into the coal-black sky

Got more strength than weakness
Got the strength to tell this lie.
You could all but disappear
At the drunk electric show.

Medicine hat x4