Crossed Bones Creek | Dark Country Music - Dark Country Boy
The wind it howls through the crooked pines
A whisper warns, "Don't cross the line"
The creek runs red where the moonlight breaks
Each step a toll, a soul it takes
Crossbones Creek where the shadows meet
Leave a piece behind or face defeat
A hand, a heart, a broken dream
The price is steep to cross that stream
I heard the tale from an old man's breath
A curse it lingers, a pact with death
He lost his leg to the water's bite
Now he limps through the cold, dark night
Crossbones Creek where the shadows meet
Leave a piece behind or face defeat
A hand, a heart, a broken dream
The price is steep to cross that stream
Fingers twitching, voices wail
The creek remembers every trail
A rib for hope and eye for grace
The bones pile high in that cursed place
I face the stream with a heavy chest
It's pull, a hunger, a cruel jest
I left my past on the murky shore
Cross whole but whole no more