Dogs and Thunder

A rifle sits behind her sleeping ear
Echo on the cold wall
Closest neighbour couldn't hear
We'd 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 her spot between the trees
And stick it in firm so it won't sway in their breeze
You and I have trouble making up our half-assed minds
But she'd seen sixteen 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 field
Back hall shelter
Warm nights in 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, Sar, I gotta go."
And I was trying to read some sort of reaction
In something you just can't show

So I guess it's time I go

Across the snowy barnyard
Just past the driving shed
Shadow of me in the moon
I was in a movie in my head
This pile of dirt on the ground will sink when nobody's around
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 field
Back hall shelter
Warm nights in 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 fear it anymore