Red Stitched Upholstery Flower Lyrics

She is a lone avenger

A one-winged angel in a holy war

Where the skies are orange

And the clouds are grey like wire

And her eyes they burn like a sun in a cage at night

Oh she loves like razors

And bites like flowers in morning light

Yeah she'll talk a day into

Tomorrow like it never was

But those eyes they never take one lick to stop a while

She told an undertaker

She wouldn't hear what he was saying

She'd take a cardboard box

If'n cardboard boxes were the cheapest way

But the undertaker gave a paper bag and she went on her way

I could tell a time

But if I done told that'd be tellings last

Cause she'd take my tongue

And she'd take my hands and she'd take em fast

But that story's one you would never 'gret me for having passed

She's bench seat red stitched

Upholstery flower

In our big red pickup truck

With our fingers commingled

On the flip down arm rest baby

Ain't nowhere we can't go

She hears the ghosts in silence

They tell her things gonna be alright

And when I'm on the wheel

She runs her hand down my hardened spine

And when the spirits gone, she close her eyes for another fight

She has a gift for guidance

She knows her way a-round the stars

She'll lay a hand on ground

And tell you what you carry on

That you should have left behind before you left at all