God gave you red light On every green road sign When you left Santa Fe We were two string beans And you were too nineteen To be blowning away There were thieves in the square Hiding hands and hiding prayers And all their mumbling Nothing left you alone Tangled hills and tiny Vireos Singing something Stuck with a bed of curls Your momma was scared of the world It was born with a bang I was stepping on seashells By the old mission in San Miguel When the bell tower rang And the sky fell apart Heard the rain, I heard your heart And what was spoken Was nothing meant for a name Nothing wants to stay the same And nothing's broken When your friends and their friends Pass the pipe or tie the knot Honeymoon music played In the drivethru parking lot I woke up by your bed You were wandering 'round the yard And go white as the day But the sun just hit too hard Little low Votive doors Momma's house slowed a little more In the evening Naked boys throwing stones Beady eyes and desert bones We saw you leaving God gave you barbed whites And a good kind of black night When you left Santa Fe New Mexico's no breeze And you were so nineteen You were blowing away