It was just like the lightning That flashes East to West Just like an oncoming storm It was just like a coffin The hollow in my chest Just like the bible Just like I'd been warned I was tending the garden Pulling up the weeds Trying to bear righteous fruit But a man's fertile soil Where satan sows his seed He will plow up your garden And plant a poison root He came for my sister She walked the narrow trail She'd follow wherever he'd lead But I took the highway I faltered and I fell He came for my sister But he did not come for me Now I kneel at the altar A church of vacant pews In the rafters a chorus of crows They sing like a hymnal of rusted organ tunes They sing like the broken heart of one who knows