I was just bony hands as cold as a winder pole
You held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold
Oh what a contrast you were
To the brutes in the halls
My timid young fingers held a decent animal

Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
Tied to a brick, sweet as a song
The years have been short but the days were long

Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass
We fell in a field, it seems now a thousand summers passed
When our kite lines first crossed
We tied them into knots
And to finally fly apart we had to cut them off

Since then it's been a book you read in reverse
So you understand less as the pages turn
Or a movie so crass and awkwardly cast
That even I could be the star

I don't look back much as a rule
And all this way before murder was cool
But your memory is here and I'd like it to stay
Warm light on a winter's day

Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
Tied to a brick, sweet as a song
The years have seemed short but the days go slowly by
Two loose kites falling from the sky
Drawn to the ground and an end to flight


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Pink Bullets Lyrics as written by James Mercer

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    Pink Bullets- blood on them. Did anyone notice the cow suddenly disappearing in the video? And the human legs swinging? Like when a kid is eating while they're sitting in a tree with their legs swinging....? Pink Bullets from the blood of one of the cows, one of the "People" In other words, the beloved this song was written about didn't leave- they died. (I know nothing of the Shins other than this one song.. But I love them already.) I didn't know how depressing this was till I really listened to it.. The lyrics are really depressing, but not at the same time. Mellow. Accepting. Or I'm crazy.

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