music ask meme : DEAD MAN’S BONES (2009)
a selection of lyrics from the 2009 album dead man’s bones. modified slightly for rp purposes.
my suitcase is packed with all your heartbeats.
i walk to their sound and head towards the sun, so my shadow will cover the tears on the ground.
i’m moving away from the place where you took your last breath.
i won’t go whistling by your grave.
i’m buried in this house.
i know i should have said more.
there’s something in the shadows.
a dark heart is beating, waiting for you.
there are no windows and the floors still creak.
the devil’s coming for you and yours.
they don’t bury bodies from the drowned.
we can let our heartbeats go.
we’re like the lambs to its slaughter.
i can’t fit in this skin. it’s worn and useless thin.
the flies in the sky make it hard to see it to the end.
i hold my soul from lands unknown, so i can play the strings of your death.
i wish that we were magic.
i sank in the deep of your eyes.
i got lost in your graveyard. now i dream on a bed of knives.
i watched the shores for you.
all you left was time to find a solid grave.
now i hold my poems for those unknown, until my hands grow weak.
you’re gonna lose your soul tonight.
i get up in the morning to the beat of a drum.
this feeling keeps me on the run.
you’d look nice in a grave.
if you wait too long, you’ll never see the dawn again.
my skull is full of sunken ships.
my heart’s a prisoner to my ribs.
we’re flesh and bone when we’re all alone.
there’s gold in my heart, but the winds took my sails through the dark.
without the sun, i’m only shadows in a dress.
if the full moon comes, our love is done.
you should know what’s really going on below.
there are rows and rows and rows of dead man’s bones.
they’ve been livin’ six feet deep.
the world was built on bones.
when i think about you, flowers grow out of my grave.
