I’m Sorry I Sang on Your Hands That Have Been in the Grave

Sunset Rubdown

Carry on, carry on, carry on, ba-dum, ba-dum
Carry on, carry on, carry on, ba-dum, ba-dum
If you are a teacher I am a vessel, oh
So carry on, carry on, carry on, ba-dum, ba-dum

There are ones that lie
And ones that lie underground
The first ones lie;
The second one I lie about.
Carry on.

Think it’s a sign, where we’re shooting the sun? Ba-dum, da-dum
I put a flag where it didn’t belong, ba-dum, da-dum.
You got a heart and I got this big, big, lance
You’re a hunter; I’ll tend the gun, ba-dum, ba-dum.

No learned has seen the lakes
And I know your hands have
Been in the grave
You beat the path down;
Will you beat the path down?
I will follow the hunter and see what you take.

I don’t only want to swim with you;
I don’t only want to swim with you;
I don’t only want to swim, swim, swim
In the water that you claim or has claimed you.
I don’t really want to swim with you;
I don’t really want to swim with you;
I don’t really want to swim, swim, swim
In the water that you claim or has claimed you.

Da-da da-dum-dum…
Carry on…

I don’t really want to swim, swim, swim
In the water that you claim or has claimed you…


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    Possible correction: I think that

    There are ones that lie And ones that lie underground The first ones lie; The second one I lie about.

    Should actually be

    There are ones that lie And ones that lie underground The first one's mine; The second one I lie about.

    The difference being "the first one's mine." I can't remember where I read it, but somebody had said very matter-of-factly that this was a song about somebody being murdered. If that's the case, my corrected line makes sense. Those that lie would be "mine" (his), meaning he lies. The second one I lie about would be those that lie underground -- the person he killed. He lies about it.

    sifellt neytandion September 28, 2007   Link

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