She was seventeen beneath the sky of dust And in her spit, the killers touch The Ghostess in a grey light faced to speak I held her like a crucifix I should've known better than to act like this The morning stains, the hemlock in her teeth And hell it was strange the way she looked at me But there was thunder in the shape her hairline made I watched her from the balustrade Her sickened skin, my fingers in her throat But man that little girl was moving slow Saying won't you come and sit beside me please Johanna I don't wanna talk Your shadow is a black rock Ain't nothing like a broken heart To make you wanna be alone She mixed the blood of the worm moon humming in her mother's cloth And the stars stood spinning and the wall-clock stopped The hung hills over the parking lots were mine Then on the edge of my old divan we spoke a while Reflecting in the darkness of my eyes You're gonna carry the weight of the young girls leaving me behind And where I had no words I made a sign Johanna I don't wanna talk Your shadow is a black rock Ain't nothing like a broken heart But tell her I don't wanna talk Please Tell her I don't wanna talk