Handsome Family Inspiration

Drawing inspired by the Handsome Family's song...

The Sad Milkman

Above the dark highways
on a black tar roof
stood the sad milkman
in love with the moon.

She filled up his window
with soft milky light
till he crawled up the chimney
and into the night.

But, the moon she rises
and the moon she falls
and her slow white eye
sees nothing at all.

Down on the sidewalk
a crowd gathered round
flinging up bricks and bottles
to knock the boy down.

He stood up above them
with his hands in the air
calling up to the moonbeams,
"Come let down your hair."

He wanted to feel
like a bucket of milk
or sweet summer wind
on rolling, green hills.

He wanted to fly
up from the roof
sailing up through the night wind
to the arms of the moon.