Little Sister Songtext
von Slobberbone

My sister sent me
"Come and get you in, it′s time to take your dinner
And you know you're to come in when you′re called
I didn't see you up on the highest limb
The sky looks to be storming
You'll be cold by morning"

When I returned without you
Her head was filled with words her tongue could not withhold
So she said she′d let them fly and scold me
I told her I′d seen you out on the highest limb
She said the night was storming
You'd be dead by morning

Little sister, where have you gone?
In the night, I hear you crying and the days are so damn long
Sometimes I wish that I could′ve gone instead of you
And I wonder, if you were sitting here
Would you be wishing that too?


The woods were damp and the air was green
A beautiful spring morning that one could serve as warning
I'd often seen it, rotten wood, broken bricks
A long rope and a pail and a hole going straight to hell

And your big brother
You′d do anything to catch his smile
But you couldn't catch him running
So you just duck and hide for a while
I didn′t hear you, I didn't even try
I was a hundred yards away
I thought you'd run off somewhere to play

Little sister, where have you gone?
In the night, I hear you crying and the days are so damn long
Sometimes I wish that I could′ve gone instead of you
And I wonder, if you were sitting here
Would you be wishing that too?

The ground was clay, we dug a shallow grave
And laid ourselves to sleep there
Just outside the fields where we had played
And I remember the way we mourned and cried
And tried to start the healing
But the stone it was revealing was a lie
As it was I


Little sister, where have you gone?
In the night, I hear you crying and the days are so damn long
Sometimes I wish that I were laying here with you
And I wonder, if that were so
Would you be rotten like me?
Little sister, where have you gone?
In the night, I hear you crying and the days are so damn long
Sometimes I wish that I were laying here with you
And I wonder, if that were so
Would you be rotten like me too?
Like me too