Started down the road a long, long while

At sixty-five miles she cracked me a smile

And told me, I'm not to blame

But those dark and stormy skies, reflected in your eyes

Always bring me back to those tiny, little lies

That you told me, that kept him safe

Now you put your hands together and pray like its mass

Its only thirty days until he gets another pass

But he blamed me, and left you crying

When the banshee calls, she calls a screamin'

She's here to take one more away before their time of leaving

And though snow and God cast shadows

Started with your eyes, and dig until your mind lay fallowed

The soldier sings a song in the middle of the night

Singing, goes out get drunk and starts a fight

That he loses. Picks his teeth up off the street

There's a needle on the table, and bottle by his bed

And I listen to the words that echoed in his head

And he told me, why he's going away

Well its dark inside the gloom, the one he calls his room

And hell this ain't a home, well he's making it a tomb

So he asked me, if we could leave tonight

When the banshee calls, she calls a screamin'

She's here to take one more away before their time of leaving

And though snow and God cast shadows

Started with your eyes, and dig until your mind lay fallowed

Well I think about the night, the night that I left

And I never, ever saw, or heard from her again

Still I wonder, just where the hell she went

And her brother's out now, and doin' okay

I try to go and see him every other Saturday

But Sunday, he ain't doin so well

Now I wait a little more, for a knock upon my door

And a tiny little letter falls and hits the floor

To tell me, about the car

When the banshee calls, she calls a screamin'

She's here to take one more away before their time of leaving

And though snow and God cast shadows

Started with your eyes, and dig until your mind lay fallowed

And though snow and God cast shadows

Started with your eyes, and dig until your mind lay fallowed

Well it started with your eyes