Happy In The Sorrow Key - Indigo Girls

As I lay my burden down

In the cradle of an elegy

In the shotgun shape of this life

I’m happy happy in the sorrow key

Hadrian’s wall was mighty

Not so mighty it didn’t fall

I roamed among its sod and stone

To wonder how we come apart

The earth it holds the human toll

The heavens bow to the gravity

The bursting heart the bleeding brain

In grief we shift tectonically

As I lay my burden down

In the cradle of an elegy

In the shotgun shape of this life

I’m happy happy in the sorrow key

Three days moored in Singapore

The ancient lure of currency

The rain came down the trade winds blew

And held me anchored to my dues

Slumbering I felt a tug

I ran to little India

To find a beggar’s clarity

And eat the spice of deities

When I close my eyes

Imagine us dead and gone

The bright light of kingdom come

But I can’t see

Take it out of my hands

I want to know the truth

The eye of the eagle

To deliver me

I’m happy in the sorrow

I’m happy in the sorrow