Beneath the Hemlock Shade

[Verse] Beneath the hemlock shade I froze The river whispered low It knows A crow flew by Black ink on sky And blood ran thick where roots lie dry [Chorus] Oh Shadows move They twist They play They took a life and slipped away I saw it all I heard the cry Beneath the hemlock shade They die [Verse 2] His coat was brown His hands were red No words were spoken Just the dead The mountain held its breath so tight The sun sank low And fled the light [Prechorus] A whisper in the pines It grows The earth remembers what it knows [Chorus] Oh Shadows move They twist They play They took a life and slipped away I saw it all I heard the cry Beneath the hemlock shade They die [Bridge] The creek don’t wash the stain away The soil drinks deep But it won’t say A secret buried in the loam No justice here No way back home