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Black Sheep Boy (Black Sheep Boy Appendix) Lyrics
Bleeding black sheep boy,
mirror in pieces.
Turn the receiver,
trace the police station.
Line to my number
and number my reasons
for this paranoia,
for these accusations.
Each night the numbers
paired off like lovers,
collided together
so I can remember
my name or my nation.
Bay black sheep boy.
Go back beyond the pasture,
you cracked out of my head.
Get in your battered Mustang
and the back seat will be your bed.
Burning black sheep boy,
dark denim phantom.
Face full of flames,
the ears full of cheers that have fanned them.
I'd slice off the horns that sprung right from those temples
I was chased from my bedroom,
I was chased from my candles.
By fear of the numbers,
paired off like lovers,
collided together
so I can remember
my face or my station.
Pacing black sheep boy.
The floor just won't support you,
You hovered through the room.
Get in your battered Mustang
and the backseat will be your tomb.
And I rode into Baltimore
and I found a hotel room
where I tried to escape you,
but the phone line wouldn't go through.
And inside the mirror,
well I saw you stamping
staring out
I'd recognize your eyes
You fell for any of the lines that come flying out.
Nothing I've heard from you sounds sane or safe.
Words falling down from the ceiling
where the mirror is stealing
the light to reveal us both tonight
and we're both kneeling in the
black pool of your shadow.
You cracked out of my head.
Go back beyond the pasture,
where I'll smash your mirror
till you're dead.
mirror in pieces.
Turn the receiver,
trace the police station.
Line to my number
and number my reasons
for this paranoia,
for these accusations.
paired off like lovers,
collided together
so I can remember
my name or my nation.
Bay black sheep boy.
you cracked out of my head.
Get in your battered Mustang
and the back seat will be your bed.
dark denim phantom.
Face full of flames,
the ears full of cheers that have fanned them.
I'd slice off the horns that sprung right from those temples
I was chased from my bedroom,
I was chased from my candles.
paired off like lovers,
collided together
so I can remember
my face or my station.
Pacing black sheep boy.
You hovered through the room.
Get in your battered Mustang
and the backseat will be your tomb.
and I found a hotel room
where I tried to escape you,
but the phone line wouldn't go through.
And inside the mirror,
well I saw you stamping
staring out
I'd recognize your eyes
You fell for any of the lines that come flying out.
Nothing I've heard from you sounds sane or safe.
Words falling down from the ceiling
where the mirror is stealing
the light to reveal us both tonight
and we're both kneeling in the
black pool of your shadow.
Go back beyond the pasture,
where I'll smash your mirror
till you're dead.
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This song is so...just so good and ethereal and frosty and blue and sweeping and slender. I'm so glad I picked up this EP, it's beyond fabulous. I don't really know what this could mean, but Will paints such a rich and dark story with offhanded phrases...it's a lonely and tragic picture of self-hatred and lost love. Chilling.
I think its about a guy that is trying hard to forget the memories of the relationship, but everything keeps reminding him of it and he can't seem to escape, found in "I found a hotel room where I tried to escape you."
The "mirror" represents his memory of her and it also represents his former self being in the relationship. His is cracked because he can't get past the relationship and he wants her to feel the same way and "smash your mirror".
I identify with this song a lot. I often take drives when i feel depressed and sleep in the backseat of my car in rest stops along the freeway. And yeah, I have a beat up '66 mustang too.
"And I rode into Baltimore and I found a hotel room where I tried to escape you, but the phone line wouldn't go through"
this part's so heart-wrenching. trying to escape that threatening darkness inside, by calling up loved ones, but the phone is never picked up. mannnn