The Miller's Daughter
They found her shawl by the millrace,
nothing more
the wheel still turning like it had before
Her father swore she'd run off with a drifter man
Bone went quiet the second we walked up said she was already
talking (hummmmm)
She says she's still waiting by the water
still turning with the wheel nobody came to find her so she's
asking me to make you feel what the river never told them
what the millstone wouldn't grind
she's still there, she's still there
she just left her body behind
I asked the father one more question,
watched his hands
they shook the way a guilty man's hands always do
Bone didn't say a word the whole ride out of town
some days the gift costs her more
than the case was worth
She says she's still waiting by the water
still turning with the wheel nobody came to find her so
she's asking me to make you feel what the river
never told them what the millstone wouldn't grind she's still there,
she's still there
she just left her body behind