Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
$0.75USD or more
lyrics
When the Earth was pretty awful I would see you casting stones onto children of disciples that had nowhere else to roam. But I saved you from the gallows. I took you in and gave you warmth but then you struck me and left me dying in the shadow of our home.
How forsaken! I’m mistaken to have thought you’d grow a soul. Then we both lay in a cell, dear. Yours was prison—mine, the ground.
Years have passed, dear. Stones have traveled, ice caps melted, wars were fought. Someone needed a drink of water: a lonely soldier hurt and lost. He met a maiden and they made babies and we traveled through their veins. Back together, sister/brother, to make peace with our old remains.
How forsaken! I’m mistaken to have thought you’d grow a soul. You left your brother alone and dying at the moment he needed you most.
Years have passed, dear. The Sun lay dying. It expanded to fill the void. She burned her planets, her last companions. Miss Red Giant called her children home.
Now we sit here in a vacuum waiting for some dust and light to start again, dear, to create life and make things all right between you and I.
The slashing roots rock on “Out On the Line” always makes its way to the kind of triumphant chorus that quickens the pulse. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 2, 2023