Silver Dagger

Gillian Welch · The Harrow & the Harvest [2011]

I'm on the dark side of a hollow hill

The sun comes up, babe, but it's hard to get my fill

Your blues are rapping and it fits my mood

I'm through with Bibles and I'm through with food



Somebody's calling, trying to track me down

And if I don't answer, I'd hang around

As side-passed lovers lost in the dark

I look for high ground for build an ark



I can't remember when I felt so free

Maybe September, the year you believed in me

In 1900 and 99

When I found the angels a-drinking wine



Seems every castle is made of sand

The great destroyer sleeps in every man

Here comes my baby, here comes my man

With that silver dagger in his hand



With that silver dagger in his hand