Lit by the moon he walked through the sand and he waved goodbye with his dead man’s hand.Īnd he will roam forever, haunting the desert. So lift me up outta here, my friend, and I’ll wander the night 'til the ages end.” I know how to live, I don’t know how to die, and there ain’t no thrills in the afterlife. I’ve stared right into the endless void and I ain’t goin’ back if I’ve got any choice. He said, “I know I’m dead but I don’t want to lie in a grave out here where the coyotes cry. I laid him down in a grave in the sand and he grabbed my arm with his dean man’s hand. Was he unforgiven, or just tired of livin’ a life that never felt like his? Though I was worn and weary, I thought I’d bury him and lay his soul to rest out in the desert at night. Just a kid with his hair slicked back and a knife tucked into his belt. Sure as hell, he was dead as they come, and we was already starting to smell. You come back from a trip to the east but you don’t come back from the dead. Saw him lyin’ in the road looking bad, about twenty yards ahead. Trying to keep my eyes open wide I’d gone days without any rest. Yellow lines in the dead of the night I was heading back out west. I’ve got a bottle of booze and a beautiful girl. I’ve got a hell of a view for the end of the world. Baby, it’s all right, we’ll be up all night. We spent our last night in the moonlight. Yeah, the sky was falling and time was bending. I had a vision tonight that the world was ending. When the World Ender comes, baby, don’t close your eyes. What if we’re unmade when the stars fade? Keep me going 'til the night turns into the day. What if the world dies with the sunrise? Baby, it’s all right, we’ll be up all night. I had a visitor come from the great beyond telling me our time in the world was done, and to watch for a sign in the midnight sky. What if we’re unmade when the stars fade? Keep me going ‘til the night turns into the day. I watched the heavens collide right before my eyes. The sky was falling and time was bending. Oh, I sing all day and I love you through the night. All the spirits that I know I saw do you see no ghosts in me at all? There ain’t language for the things I feel, and If I can’t have you, then no one ever will. Yes, I know that love is like ghosts when the moonlight, baby, shows you what’s real. But if you’re leavin’, I gotta know why? Oh, I sing all day and I love you through the night. You don’t want me, baby, please don’t lie. They sing all day and they haunt me in the night. God bless this band, seriously.Play the album, and read along for the full experience: These songs are embedded with some kind of drug, I’m positive, and listening to them again reminds me of the summer I grew up, and the adventure of a lifetime exploring the wild with my husband now. Long lost gave me back my love for the woods and Ghost on the shore has been the anthem of my life for nearly 4 years now. These songs traveled with me to leave home for the first time when I was newly 19 and they saw me explore the lonely country roads of West Virginia through early mornings and rainy afternoons, all the way into the Colorado Rockies where I am continually and blissfully getting lost in the wilderness. I was born in the high desert of Oregon and I found their songs when I was living in the dullest and darkest time of my life and if brought me back there to a time I can’t even remember, back to that place, where it was wild and vast and adventure existed. I was thinking about how much nostalgia this band gives me and I realized it felt like that since I started listening to them.
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