Nine of Pentacles

Lyrics

[Intro]


[Verse 1]
The iron gate is locked, the deed is in the desk.
She walks out through the rows in a heavy, patterned dress.
The limestone wall is twelve feet high, holding in the heat,
And everything she planted is pooling at her feet.
She paid the mortgage down with her own calloused hands,
Now she’s standing in the center of her own private lands.

[Chorus]
With nine heavy coins hanging in the leaves,
Everything you wanted, the things you get to keep.
It’s quiet in the garden when you finally own the ground,
No one left to answer to, no other human sound.
Just the slow, patient creep of a snail in the grass,
Watching the late summer afternoon pass.

[Verse 2]
She’s got a bird of prey resting on her heavy glove.
A creature built for hunger, brought down from the sun.
With a four-ounce leather hood pulled tight across the eyes,
It doesn’t need to hunt today, it's given up the fight.

When the brain stops searching for a target in the brush,
You can finally learn to settle in the hush.

[Chorus]
With nine heavy coins hanging in the leaves,
Everything you wanted, the things you get to keep.
It’s quiet in the garden when you finally own the ground,
No one left to answer to, no other human sound.
Just the slow, patient creep of a snail in the grass,
Watching the late summer afternoon pass.

[Bridge]
The big house is empty, the polished floorboards gleam.
Nobody around to interrupt the dream.
She built this sanctuary to keep the world away,
And if it gets a little lonely...
Well, she likes it that way.


[Outro]
Just the heavy purple vines.
The hooded bird asleep.
The harvest is perfectly fine.
You bought the silence.
Now you just have to drink the wine.