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The box Lyrics
Living in a box by the rails
Only thing you use, you don't fail
When you live in a box by the rails
Don't comb your hair, don't comb your tail
[Chorus]
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me holding, leave my soul
Leave me nothing I don't need at all
Nothing I don't need at all
Yay from the bins, in the parks
Made off with the raps after dark
Never left a trail, never made his mark
When he gave me the raps after dark
Calling all his friends, never made him sad
With all the things he never had
It only made them feel so bad
For having the things he never had
[Chorus]
If you stay in that box overnight
Don't get out till it gets light
There's not much lost of the secret life
It's never gone wrong and it's never gone right
Now some more flowers grow
The palm gets eaten by a few more throws
An old man's box is full of bones
See his footprints see his stones
[Chorus: x2]
Only thing you use, you don't fail
When you live in a box by the rails
Don't comb your hair, don't comb your tail
Sweep my mess away
Leave my body, leave my bones
Leave me holding, leave my soul
Leave me nothing I don't need at all
Nothing I don't need at all
Made off with the raps after dark
Never left a trail, never made his mark
When he gave me the raps after dark
Calling all his friends, never made him sad
With all the things he never had
It only made them feel so bad
For having the things he never had
Don't get out till it gets light
There's not much lost of the secret life
It's never gone wrong and it's never gone right
Now some more flowers grow
The palm gets eaten by a few more throws
An old man's box is full of bones
See his footprints see his stones
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Yeah I'm pretty sure this song is talking about the life of a tramp. If you don't go out in the world, you never get hurt, do anything right, or anything wrong.
"He ate from the bins, in the park Stayed out with the rats after dark Never left a trail, never made his mark When he ate with the rats after dark Calling on his friends, never made him sad Didn't want the things he never had It only made them feel so bad For having the things he never had"
A pretty obvious meaning I guess. Still really wonderful though. I found Johnny Flyn after he had the free single of the week spot on iTunes.
According to a review I read on his label's site, the song was inspired by the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau, which makes a lot of sense if you've read Walden.
What a brilliant songwriter. =]
Catchy. I think I preferred it, though, when I thought it was about a freight hopper.
litterateur is right.
Henry David Thoreau's Walden inspired "The Box." "Thoreau's saying that somewhere along the line we've gone horribly wrong in collecting all this stuff," Flynn says. "It was really that whole thing set to a story basically in a song."
Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93881943
Who is Rob?....hmmmm
It's "won't see his footprints in the snow," not "stones"
it differs depending which version yo listen to, I used to be really bugged by it saying stones, but now I have the album version I miss the oddness of it.
it differs depending which version yo listen to, I used to be really bugged by it saying stones, but now I have the album version I miss the oddness of it.
These posted lyrics are wrong in so many ways, I don't even know where to start.
Having said that, wow, what a great song and artist.
Having said that, wow, what a great song and artist.