Broken Horses

Album: In These Silent Days (2021)
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  • I wear my father's leather on the inside of my skin
    I'm a tried and weathered woman, but I won't be tried again
    Ah, don't think that you can come for me without your Sunday best
    You had better call your priest and hope, oh, the devil gets the rest
    Before I do
    Oh no, and I will do

    I've worn the jester's bells and I have banished with the fools
    I have worshiped at the altar of the puppet master's rules
    I have held my tongue too many scenes before the final act
    With my children in the cheap seats and a zipper on my back
    Thanks to you
    No thanks to you

    Tethered in wide open spaces
    And fields that lead for miles
    Right into the barrel of a gun
    Mendin' up your fences with my
    Horses runnin' wild
    Only broken horses know to run

    I have ever so politely treaded softly for your grace
    I have whispered through the tears and pleaded sweetly to your face
    It is time to spit you out like lukewarm water from my mouth
    I will always taste the apathy, but I won't pass it down
    It dies with you
    Oh, with you

    Tethered in wide open spaces
    And fields that lead for miles
    Right into the barrel of a gun
    Mendin' up your fences with my
    Horses runnin' wild
    Only broken horses know to run

    (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh)
    (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh)
    (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh)

    Oh, I wear my father's leather on the inside of my skin
    I'm a tried and weathered woman, but I won't be tried again
    Ah, don't think that you can come for me without your Sunday best
    You had better call your priest ,oh, and hope the devil gets the rest
    Before I do
    Oh, oh no, and I will do

    Tethered in wide open spaces (tethered in wide open spaces)
    And fields that lead for miles
    Right into the barrel of a gun
    Mendin' up your fences with my
    Horses runnin' wild
    Only broken horses know
    Mendin' up your fences with my
    Horses runnin' wild
    Only broken horses know
    Only broken horses know
    Only broken horses know to run Writer/s: Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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