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Where the Silver Birch Grow

from Bury Me Tomorrow by THE DIRT

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lyrics

You know the place where the silver birch grow
There my lover sleeps in a blanket of snow
Soon I shall slip ‘neath that blanket with you
My lips on your lips, I whisper to you:
Hold me while I’m growing cold

With a knife in my hand and steel in my heart
I caused my poor love this world to depart

I followed you to where the dark waters flow
And vigilant pike guard the bodies below
I watched as you crushed her against weeping tree
Your lips on her lips, I imagined twas me
I touched myself as she came
Whispering my lover’s name

With a knife in my hand and steel in my heart
I caused my poor love this world to depart
With a knife in my hand and steel in my heart
I laid my love low where the silver birch grow

You lay with another now you’ll lay with me
Some ill-starrèd lovers are parted, but we
Shall share our dark bed til the worms have their way
And turn us to earth, as I turn to say:
Hold me while I’m growing cold
I’ll hold your bones while you grow old

With a knife in my hand and steel in my heart
I cleaved my pale breast and this world did depart
With a knife in my hand and steel in my heart
I laid myself low where the silver birch grow
I laid myself low where the silver birch grow

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from Bury Me Tomorrow, released December 1, 2010
Music and lyrics by Graeme Dirt

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THE DIRT Glasgow

THE DIRT are a gothic country three-piece based in Glasgow, Scotland.

“Scotland's finest purveyors of gothic country gloom.”
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“Bury Me Tomorrow is a gloomy triumph of underground folk and country music that is a must listen.”
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