[ti:carousel] [ar:Iron & Wine] [al:The Shepherd's dog] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.58]Artist:iron and wine [00:02.02]Songs Title:carousel [00:03.20] [00:36.29]Almost home [00:37.53]And I miss the bottom stair [00:39.72] [00:41.28]You were braiding your grey hair [00:43.28] [00:45.35]And it's grown so long [00:46.92] [00:47.67]Since I've been gone [00:48.79] [00:53.20]Now the perfect girls [00:54.83]By the pool they would protest [00:56.51] [00:57.69]With crosses 'round their necks [00:59.31] [01:02.59]But our sons were overseas [01:03.72]And we all know about the hive and the honey bees [01:08.02] [01:26.09]Almost home [01:26.53]With an olive branch and a dove [01:31.70]You were beating on a persian rug [01:33.63] [01:34.19]With your Bible and your wedding band [01:36.07] [01:38.24]Both hidden on the TV stand [01:39.79] [01:40.87]And the cruel wind blew [01:42.23] [01:45.82]Every city father fell [01:47.70]Off the county carousel [01:49.01] [01:51.83]While the dogs were eating snow [01:53.65] [01:54.33]All our sons had sunk in a trunk [01:57.42] [01:58.98]Of no one's clothes [02:02.10] [02:03.17]Almost home [02:05.92] [02:15.31]We got lost on our new street [02:17.61]While your grieving girls all died in their sleep [02:19.99]So the dogs all went unfed [02:21.55]A great dream of bones all piled on a bed [02:24.05]And the cops couldn't care [02:25.12]When that crackhead built a boat [02:26.30]And said please before I go [02:27.49]May your only honor bought [02:28.48]Be the kinship of the kids in the riot squad