The Dirt Knows Her Better Now

Intro Her ring still fits the hook beside the door

Verse 1 Her garden gloves still hold the shape of hands I can't fill the way she could The thumbnail dirt she never scrubbed Is down there with her now for good She used to turn the cold side of the bed She used to know which board would creak Now something colder turns her over slow And keeps the secrets I would seek

Pre-Chorus It folds around her tight Closer than I lie

Chorus The dirt knows her better now It's got her hands, it's got her hair, her stillness Learned her shape I used to hold And it won't ever have to let her go

Verse 2 I brought her lilies, then I brought her none The ground don't need a thing from me It feeds on what I used to keep And gives her nothing back but privacy A rival I can't curse or fight He doesn't sleep, he doesn't tire He's pressed against her every inch The way I haven't since the night she retired

Pre-Chorus It folds around her tight Closer than I lie

Chorus The dirt knows her better now It's got her hands, it's got her hair, her stillness Learned her shape I used to hold And it won't ever have to let her go

Bridge Somewhere there's a man whose wife is warm Who thinks the bed beside him's just a given He's got no idea what he's been loaned And what the patient ground has already written The dirt knows her better now It's got her hands, it's got her hair, her stillness Learned her shape I used to hold And it won't ever have to let her go

Outro It won't ever have to let her go

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