Vermilion Lyrics

I stood atop the mountain

Watch the vermilion color

Of the clouds

Fade into the sky

As she stood beside me

With the last of the tobacco

She said your "fixing's too dry"

It looked like rain

It looked a storm

If we're lucky lightning might strike

Then we'd never need to leave this place

It would always just be tonight

Too late for coffee

So we switched over to whiskey

In a way

It would keep us warm

In the hazy fog of stars

I was looking for Mars

But you said

I was a cow

Or maybe a bull

Or maybe a goat

But I remember that you were a fish

Cause from the shimmering stream

A sockeye jumped high

And her color was that of a dream

The golden hawk

Takes his flight

With the rise

Of the morning light

Shining in his talons

Is our scaly friend

Now it's come

To an end

Tear down the camp

Pack up the stove

Smother any embers that you see

You'll go your way

And I'll go mine

A thousand miles in between