Shadows of Evangeline Lyrics

CAPO: 4th Fret
INTRO: Am G F G (4x)
It is rain, it is age, it is poison
Supplication to family honour
Little children with keys to the temple
Red lights and silver dimes
CHORUS:
It's waiting for a sun that punishes but seldom shines
Living and dying in the shadow of Evangeline
INTERLUDE: Am G F G Am G F G
She is young, like her mother before her
Put-up tired at the end of her labours
True believing and ever desiring
Quiz shows and checkout lines
CHORUS:
In porch-light halo ringed about by moss and hanging vines
She casts the never changing shadow of Evangeline
INSTRUMENTAL: Am G F G (4x)
In the bang and the crash of the factory
In a hot, cutting season of metal
On the floor of an ocean of contracts
Skin drums and shrunken heads
CHORUS:
Strange dances, long undone, go stamping in between the lines
Old gods, incarnate in the shadow of Evangeline
OUTRO: Am G F G Am G F G Am G F G Am