Dogs and Thunder

a rifle sits behind her sleeping ear
an echo on the cold wall closest neighbor couldn't hear
we dug a hole in the fall
so now its a frozen burial
and she's gone
just before the new year
well i'm gonna build a cross for the spot between the trees
and stick it in firm so it won't sway in their breeze
well you and i have trouble making up our half-assed minds
but she'd seen 16 years of our kind
and what's it like when your memories start to freeze
oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder
what they hear coming over the fields
back hall shelter warm nights in the summer
shaking the ground that you lie under
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
and i came to see you on the day that it happened
you said 'hey sorry, sar but i gotta go'
and i was trying to read some sorta reaction
it's something you just can't show
so i guess it's time i go
across the snowy barnyard just past the drive-in shed
a shadow of me in the moon well, i was in a movie in my head
this pile of dirt on the ground
will sink when nobody is around
the winter covers everything but everything's not dead
oh and i wonder what it is about dogs and thunder
what they hear coming over the fields
back hall shelter warm nights in the summer
shaking the ground that you lie under
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore
well i know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore