Midnight Pine

This is a song I wrote for my band Kill the Vultures. It is featured on the Midnight Pine EP self released in 2007.

White night gown walking into dark water
That most likely fell from above
Sends a shiver through every last drop
Of my halfbreed blood

Beyond a shadow of a doubt
There's still the shadow of a proud man swinging
Swinging from a midnight pine

Masquerade, mingle through the market
Knowing that this ain't my skin
Look back at the ashes of my footsteps
March with men shackled to sin

Beyond a shadow of a doubt
There's still the shadow of a proud man swinging
Swinging from a midnight pine

A child's face pressed up to the glass
Fixed, hungry for what he ain't got
Begs 'til he gets the Indian leg bone
From the souvinir shop

Beyond a shadow of a doubt
There's still a shadow a proud man swinging
Swinging from a midnight pine

Standing at the mouth of scortched red rivers
Eyes rolled back, shook as she sung
Palms to the sky, roots to the sycamore tree
Rope to the branch where she hung

And beyond a shadow of a doubt
There's still the shadow of a proud man swinging
Swinging from a midnight pine