How Long
Album: A Little Rain
By: Mitch David Carter
By: Mitch David Carter
Duration
4:30
Genres
Description
A murder, a storm of anguish and pain undiminished with the passage of time...echos of Cash and Earle but with a guitar solo reminiscent of David Gilmore...How Long, indeed.
Lyrics
The old house sits silent, empty and cold as the heart of a man on death row Why did he do it What was he thinkin' is something' that we'll never know The windows are covered so no one can see the shell of the lives that are gone The blood is long dried up, the body is buried But the heartache goes on and on How long? It was a day like the rest the sun in the morning the moon in the sky at night The smell of her jasmine perfume in the hallway A smile on her face said she might Just a ten-minute trip to the market for champagne A ten-minute trip back home And our lives were over, destroyed by a demon Engraving this date on a stone How long? Now ten years have come and ten years have gone and ten years have taken their toll With lines on my face and grey in my hair and anguish that blackens my soul They say that forgiveness is what can bring healin' And judgement is best left to God But all that was good and all of my mercy Are buried six feet under sod How long? The old house sits silent, empty and cold As the heart of a man on death row
