Blackbirds

The blackbirds came at dusk and they roosted in the cane
 raised such a ruckus that it shook my windowpane
 And I'm covered up in dirt and I stink of kerosene
 and no matter what I do I can't get clean
 last thing i remember was your footsteps in the hall
 whisky in your voice and a shotgun on the wall
 now there's shadows in the shadows, there's trouble in the cane
 and there's things you do that you just can't explain
 Uneasy lies the head – unfaithful is the heart
 ungrateful and unlucky and untrue
 And no one saw me coming, and no one saw me go
 Only the blackbirds and you
 come harvest in the cane fields the sky turns black with smoke
 so I took our father's gun and a heavy piece of rope
 and I left you lying there like rotten fruit upon the ground
 and I lit a torch and I burned the whole thing down
 Uneasy lies the head – unfaithful is the heart
 ungrateful and unlucky and untrue
 And no one saw me coming, and no one saw me go
 Only the blackbirds and you
 our father was a farmer he planted fields of cane
 he planted seeds of evil and we harvested the shame
 Oh but I'm the last one standing there's no one left to tell
 and when it's my time I'll see you both in hell
 Uneasy lies the head – unfaithful is the heart
 ungrateful and unlucky and untrue
 And no one saw me coming, and no one saw me go
 Only the blackbirds and you
 And no one saw me coming, and no one saw me go
 Only the blackbirds and you