The moment we said good bye   Silence tore across the sky   The riverbed by wide and dry   As far as I could see   And someone said   My ghost was found   Laying her burden down   Taking the long way around   Underneath the moon…      Somewhere on the prairie,   A little cross in mine   A simple wooden marker   With a plastic rose is entwined   And in the stillness of the twilight   As the tumbleweeds wind   I am crawling like a scorpion   across the melancholy time       so shred the poems    let the wild birds chase them in the breeze   let them make their nests   from words like “please”   put those dreams to rest   throw them at the moon   blow the confetti across   the golden west      I was the fragrance in the wild flower    Opening for only you   In the delicate hour   Before the cold shot through   Ten thousand years from now   You'll put your hand in mine    Remembering a fragrance   Full of melancholy time      You see those ravens breaking the prairie sky?   We used to go where ravens fly   Our giddy laughter made the angels cry    to fly as free as you and i      somewhere on the prairie   a cross, a rose, a shrine   standing for true love   gone before its time   there goes your shadow down the highway   out that road I could't fine   while I crawl like a scorpion   slowly to the new word   across these miles of prairie   full of melancholy time