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Build Me A Castle
03:43
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Build me a city of ashes and horses
Build me a city of clay
Build me a city where I can recline and
Let the night take the day
Build me a city
Build me a castle of mothers and fathers
Build me a castle of stone
Build me a castle to keep out the masses
So I can have winter alone
Build me a castle
If I had a dollar for all of the follies
And thoughts that have passed through my head
I would be richer than cream in the morning
In the coffee that sits by my bed
Build me a castle
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The Memory Stays
03:24
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My ex just texted twenty minutes ago
Should I look at the phone?
It's been six months that she's left me alone
That she's left me alone
Before three dots she has managed to say
Shewalked by my old place
And I'm stuck still, I'm afraid she might say
What she thinks of those days
If the future grows like branches then I chopped one off too soon
Or I just didn't notice as it withered from the root
From the root
From the root
I ain't done much in a night and a day
I been thinkin' in haze
Close my eyes, kill a couple more hours
In a couple of ways
It ain't get bad til the end of the night
With a belly of wine
When I'm silent in my bed with a voice in my head
Saying you really fucked up this time
If the future grows like branches then I chopped one off too soon
Or I just didn't notice as it withered from the root
From the root
From the root
My ex just texted couple hours ago
Or has it been a couple of days?
I was too fucked up to see her walking away
But the memory stays
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Growing Pains
04:02
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I've just got old growing pains
I've just got holes in my brain
Father where will I get my prescription tonight?
In the back of a bottle I notice the light of the moon
The moon
I notice the light of the moon
The moon
All the voices they drive me insane
They all repeat more of the same
Motherfuckers, the lot of em, 'sides I got sights
On some sad supplication and sex for the night in my room
In my room
Sex for the night in my room
In my room
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Have I Been Shot
03:17
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I've seen my brother, brother, brother, brother die
I've seen my brother, brother, brother, brother die
Ain't no life in his body, ain't no color in his skin
Ain't no soul in his eyes, just a pallid and thin
Reflection of my mother
A boy a knew but someone other
Someone please explain to me
How did my brother, brother, brother, brother die?
How did my brother, brother, brother, brother die?
Have I been shot up with heroin?
An overdose of morphine for my soul
I can't feel none of the hell I'm in
But if I'm bleeding then I'm bleeding and I'll bleed a little more
I've seen my brother, brother, brother, brother die
I've seen my brother, brother, brother, brother die
Have I been shot?
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Alephant
03:21
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There's an aleph in my eye
Like a flower that is always unfolding
Do I ever question why?
Can I see past all of the castles that I've molded?
Follow the alephant
Follow the alephant
Follow it home
Follow elephants inside
There's a palace on the ceiling, the ceiling
Tell me why are you so wise?
Can it be real if I can't feel it, can't feel it?
Follow the alephant
Follow the alephant
Follow it home
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