Hemlock Grove

Your heart is dark as a hemlock grove
 Where the sun never shines and nothing grows
 Black as each feather in a murder of crows
 Your heart is dark
 as a hemlock grove
 Your heart is empty as winter in a tourist town
 The boardwalk deserted, all shuttered down
 And every bird has flown--southbound
 Your heart is empty
 as winter in a tourist town
 There is no resolution
 Try as I might
 I shun the darkness
 But I shy away from the light
 There's a hole inside
 I try to fill
 But you dig it
 Deeper still
 Love is crooked as the teeth in an old man's smile
 As the stones in the graveyard, as a country mile
 But I'll drive all night to get there if you let me stay awhile
 Love is crooked
 as the teeth in an old man's smile
 Your heart is empty
 as winter in a tourist town
 Your heart is dark
 as a hemlock grove