Digging Up the Past

under the pines we dug deep down to find our way to Shadow Town the taste of fear was on my tongue I tried to sing the song we sung when slipping through the mystery wood last winter when you said we should hide and seek the silver fox the one that you kept in a box beneath the ancient cuspidore that grandma hid behind the door the smell of peppermint and wine split the night and I was nine you were ten or seventeen or maybe somewhere in between we excavated thirty days surrounded by a purple haze that rose from egos torn apart we dug a hole in someone's heart who is it now?I heard you ask who's interfering with our task? your mother and the love you lost we've broken down the walls of frost the Shadow Town is made of ice we've cracked the shell,we've done it twice! all is melting ,running wild! I think you are an awful child to dig and dig and cause such pain now close this mess back up again those who live in Shadow Town prefer the cool dark underground the light of day ,the burning rays defrosting ,breaking down our ways you'll show our neighbors,tell your friends and this is how our secret ends so we can't dig here anymore I think I'll just return to four and y ougo back to six or five and we'll just try to stay alive.