Song For God

neighbor kids running across the front yard this evening

sun going down, wind gathering strength

the state i live in is the largest of its kind

it takes two days or better to drive across its length

if you try to come and find me, i will know you're coming

there's an old fallout shelter i can hide in

i won't even be able to hear their hoofbeats

when the horsemen ride in

another mild winter -- time seems to stand still

the sky swallows up the city like a tent

tiny breezes razor patterns in the dust

no way of saying what they're supposed to represent

i have come to where i've come to now

always abiding in you

if you try to find me now I'll be invisible to everything

when the horsemen come riding on through

A Note from Mr. Darnielle:

"Song For God" was cut largely because while the lyric clearly

reads "it takes two days or better to drive across its length,"

the singer of the recording in question has inexplicably chosen

to modify that to read "it takes two days or better to walk

across its length." I challenge anyone foolhardy enough to

try it to see whether Texas can in fact be walked in two days. I

would hazard to guess that it can't be done.