Failing Farm Songtext
von River Whyless

Gone is the garden, stalks rot dry
Gone are the children whom we learned to water
And all the chicks died at dawn
Starving in a feather pile of their dead mother

New milk is draining soft curd drawers
Within the muslin cloth we hung to filter
And all the cows died in lines
Stretching the electric fence to the open pasture

Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Make love with yourself
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell


Cradled in his hand, a flame glows
Inside the hayloft, he climbs up the ladder
And all the bats died at once
Fighting in a burning pile of the boy′s room near

There is a lesson in careless eyes
Prying the fruit out from behind the store
And all the kids lost their sight
Clutching at their bellyaches from the poisoned berries

Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Make love with yourself
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell


Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Make love with yourself
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell
Nobody can tell