Neko Case Dirty Knife Lyrics

Dirty Knife Lyrics

So suddenly

The madness came

With its whiskered wolven ether
pangs

He locked the door

And shut the blinds

He laid down on
the floor

And he slept like iron

While the dirty knife

Worked
deep into his spine



The blood runs crazy

The blood runs
crazy



Cascading letters pool on the stairs

The grass is
high

The cats are wild

You can’t even touch the tip of their
tails

And the blood runs crazy

With giant strides

He sang
nursery rhymes

To paralyze 

The wolves that eddy out the corner of
his eyes

But they squared him frozen where he stood

In the glow of
the furniture

Piled high for firewood

And the blood runs crazy

With giant strides



And the woodsman failed to breech those

Fangs in time

So they dragged him through the underbrush

Wearing
three winter coats

And a dirty knife