A rifle sits behind her sleeping ear    An echo on the cold wall closest neighbor couldn't hear    We dug a hole in the fall    So now it's a frozen burial    And she's gone    Just before the new year       Well I'm gonna build a cross for the spot between the trees    And stick it in firm so it won't sway in their breeze    Well you and I have trouble making up our half-assed minds    But she'd seen 16 years of our kind    And what's it like when your memories start to freeze       Oh and I wonder    What it is about dogs and thunder    What they hear coming over the fields    Backhouse shelter   Warm nights in the summer    Shaking the ground that you lie under    Well I know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore       And I came to see you on the day that it happened    You said "hey sorry Sarah, but I gotta go"   And I was trying to read some subtle reaction    It's something you just can't show    So I guess it's time I go       Across the snowy barnyard just past the driving shed    A shadow of me in the moon    Well I was in a movie in my head    This pile of dirt on the ground    Will sink when nobody is around    And winter covers everything but everything's not dead       Oh and I wonder    What it is about dogs and thunder    What they hear coming over the fields    Backhouse shelter warm nights in the summer    Shaking the ground that you lie under    Well I know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore    Well I know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore    Well I know you're not here but at least you don't feel it anymore