WHERE THE SAGEBRUSH GROWS
Copyright 2000 by Adam Selzer, All Rights Reserved, ASCAP

When the sky has been pinned open and moon is all you see
by the weeping willow
she'll be there with me  
hide behind the tree trunk
from the winds that blow
I met her in the garden where the sagebrush grows

Drifters pay with postage stamps
conducters pay with stones
punks just pay with cigarettes
artists pay with bones
she's never paid with anything
but looks that say "I know."
I met her in the garden where the sagebrush grows

Her hair was filled with daffodils
her fingers shined with rings
she said she was an angel
but I didn't see no wings
her eyes were burned out wheat fields
where smoke rose through the snow
I met her in the garden where the sagebrush grows

I swear this house is haunted
it makes my blood run cold
the shadows here are groaning
and it makes me feel so old
if she steps inside and beckons me
I just don't know where I'll go
I met her in the garden where the sagebrush grows

5/20-21/2000 (written during a Meslers show)


Copyright 2000 by Adam Selzer, all rights reserved, ASCAP.