Dead Dog Song

[Verse 1]

Sam, bless him, has died and left this home

The woodchucks running wild, the bushes overgrown

Slip unseen into the skein of trees

Slide through dusky grasses and scatter his ashes

[Chorus]

Oh, it's all over, he's never coming back

There'll be no more roaming

Was only here for fourteen years

And now the branches scratch my face and I can't hold back my tears

[Verse 2]

Long ago I'd see him running in the snow

He'd come in from the cold and he would lie down by the stove

Pass along this loping road

The needle grasp of briers on the slope

[Chorus]

Oh, it's all over, he's never coming back

There'll be no more roaming

He was only here for fourteen years

And now the branches scratch my face and I can't hold back my tears

[Bridge]

He'd never been to church, so he doesn't have a soul

He isn't waiting at the place where all of us will go

But the woodchucks wouldn't run so wild

The grass wouldn't be so overgrown if we were not alone

[Verse 3]

Bound unbound through the boundless air, remaining wisps of hair

Barking out through everywhere

The trees, the grass, the rain

And Sam in the air

[Chorus]

Oh, it's all over, he ain't never coming back

There'll be no more roaming

He was in this world, by my side he was curled

But he came uncurled and this world holds him that much tighter

[Post-Chorus]

That much tighter, that much tighter

That much tighter, that much tighter

Tighter, tighter, tighter, tighter

Tighter, tighter, tighter, tighter, oh

[Instrumental Outro]