A rifle sits behind her sleeping ear An echo on the cold wall closest neighbor couldn't hear We dug a hole in the fall So now it's a frozen burial And she's gone Just before the new year Well I'm gonna build a cross for the spot between the trees And stick it in firm so it won't sway in their breeze Well you and I have trouble making up our half-assed minds But she'd seen 16 years of our kind And what's it like when your memories start to freeze Oh and I wonder What it is about dogs and thunder What they hear coming over the fields Backhouse shelter Warm nights in the summer Shaking the ground that you lie under Well I know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore And I came to see you on the day that it happened You said \ "hey sorry Sarah, but I gotta go\" And I was trying to read some subtle reaction It's something you just can't show So I guess it's time I go Across the snowy barnyard just past the driving shed A shadow of me in the Moon Well I was in a movie in my head This pile of dirt on the ground Will sink when nobody is around And winter covers everything but everything's not dead Oh and I wonder What it is about dogs and thunder What they hear coming over the fields Backhouse shelter warm nights in the summer Shaking the ground that you lie under Well I know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore Well I know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore Well I know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore