Beyond The Fence - Iron & Wine

Two flat tires on the Model T

Two birds fightin' for a worm

Faded squares like snowy TV screens

Where your photographs were hung

Keep Old Glory folded on a shelf

In a cabinet full of guns

Sell that engine block to someone else

Maybe they can make it run

How’d that calf get out beyond the fence?

How’d that hole get in your jeans?

Movie show was once but twenty cents

That mud there was once a stream

The moon is high, your nose is burnt

Your dog is gone.

Your mouth is dry, the milk is turned

But Barbara’s home.

Hand in hand you watch the sun go down

Colored lullabye of God

Barbara wears her mother’s old nightgown

Sleepin' with a nightlight on

White sheet blowin' on a short clothesline

New tree bendin' to the breeze

This clock’s beautiful but can’t keep time

What’s that scar on both your knees?

The moon is high, your nose is burned

Your dog is gone.

Your mouth is dry, the milk has turned

But Barbara’s home.