minor piano keys

Lyrics

say, say somethin' nice to her, fragrant and sturdier, delicate hands for shoulders sliding down, days, days like a summer rain, blink and they're gone again, soakin' she sits alone, outside and down, prays, prays for her soldier boy, in fire and angry noise, under the thumb of the lord, and waits, quiltin' and quietly, her minor piano keys, slip through the screen on the door, say, say what you mean to her, washing her colander, eyes on the stranger cresting around the bend, days, days like the winter snow, linger 'til heaven knows, naked, she sings the table grace and then, prays, prays for her soldier boy, in fire and angry noise, under the thumb of the lord, and waits, quiltin' and quietly, her minor piano keys, slip through the screen on the door