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Trees Come Down Lyrics
The war is passed
Now she tells him again
You should fetch the plans
The(?), the(?) you see
Leeway
Like the sun over the closing door
Whispered Caroline, walks down the steps
So feel the pain, feel the pain
The Heathen, the Heathen
Like the Heathen, the Heathen
From the crowd "Come Children of the Called"
And in the sect, they hurry around the closing door
So feel the pain, feel the pain
The Heathen, the Heathen
Like the Heathen, the Heathen
The Heathen...
Like the Heathen
Like the Heathen
God look out for the Heathen
The Heathen...
One more nightmare calling
Across the farthest fields
The night skies are dawning
Takes this much as you
Trees come down
Fall...
There's a girl in a green dress
She's got eyes like fire and lips so tame
She's huddled by the girl who's crying in the red dress
Hunger for life in this dying dying age
Now she tells him again
You should fetch the plans
The(?), the(?) you see
Whispered Caroline, walks down the steps
So feel the pain, feel the pain
The Heathen, the Heathen
Like the Heathen, the Heathen
And in the sect, they hurry around the closing door
The Heathen, the Heathen
Like the Heathen, the Heathen
Like the Heathen
God look out for the Heathen
The Heathen...
Across the farthest fields
The night skies are dawning
Takes this much as you
Fall...
She's got eyes like fire and lips so tame
She's huddled by the girl who's crying in the red dress
Hunger for life in this dying dying age
Song Info
Submitted by
djangosclouds On Jan 21, 2009
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Haven't got a clue what the lyrics are about but I love the second section, when the drums go crazy so I had to put the lyrics up! I figure it's something to do with the aftermath of a religious war but it's hard to tell.
I like the Trees Come Down AD version better, even though it is considered unoffical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTEunB_AWI
It clearly is about war, could be a nuclear one: "Worship the Sun", people going insane in the Armageddon like surrondings.
The live version with just the second section is awesome and intense. The lyrics are oblique but seem to refer to the apocryphal gospels which include stuff about the Nephilim, the giant children of fallen angels on earth. Karl Ove Knausgaard, who when younger studied theology, wrote an odd novel about this stuff. Not very illuminating.