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American Motor Over Smoldered Field Lyrics
It will not be a tender fire
Upon your postcard mountains
No golden children will write hymns about
The slow defeat of your reckless destiny
Bullets in the bellies of babies
Sleeping in the strangest places
Indifferent to the blinding grace of
The vapor trails and burning waste
Of your baptist skies
Oh, to live in a burning house
With burning children eating dust
And finger painting flags
Smoke pours out of their eyes
They're praying and saluting
Hey, okay
Kiss me slowly
Beneath the dripping leaves
Of our train track trees
Though sickly and diseased
Some weeds thrive anyways
It will not be a tender fire
Upon your postcard mountains
No golden children will write hymns about
The slow defeat of your reckless destiny
This fence around your garden
Won't keep the sky from falling...
Upon your postcard mountains
No golden children will write hymns about
The slow defeat of your reckless destiny
Sleeping in the strangest places
Indifferent to the blinding grace of
The vapor trails and burning waste
Of your baptist skies
With burning children eating dust
And finger painting flags
Smoke pours out of their eyes
They're praying and saluting
Kiss me slowly
Beneath the dripping leaves
Of our train track trees
Though sickly and diseased
Some weeds thrive anyways
Upon your postcard mountains
No golden children will write hymns about
The slow defeat of your reckless destiny
Won't keep the sky from falling...
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I can not get over the power of this song. It's so postmodern, musically and lyrically. They inter-twine so many devices to sum up a dark outlook on a possible future. I love how the lyrics end on reckless destiney, then explode into an intoxacating wall of beutiful violin lines, triads being plucked on guitar and an uplifting bass and drum line.
i'm pretty sure the last line of the song is "won't keep the ICE from falling"
this song is just ... fantastic. i'm in total concurrence with prophet.
These are the official lyrics, though he does say "ice" on the record.
He says it a thousand times, maybe he says both sky and ice at some point. However, if he did say something that sounded like "ice," it must have been "eyes."