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Oh, I see you in your cobra nest
all dressed up in your sunday best
In the opal morning light
see your gun there, shining bright
shining bright
Now the storm is on its way
coming here to break the day
steaming rain
Oh, you go shoot me down
take my halo, yoke and crown
yoke and crown
'cause I've been to the darkest place I know
so you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below
It's just bones
Now you go softly soft
picking out better bones than your own
Oh, I see you creep in the dark
sticking pins into the rain
to wash away
I've been to the only place I know
it's just bones
So you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below
it's just bones
Just bones,
bones x 15
So how can love bear to see you, bear to see you go alone?
Black and blue, this beating heart's got the same blood as your own,
as your own.
So you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below
it's just bones
And I've been to the darkest place you know
it's just bones
bones x 8
all dressed up in your sunday best
In the opal morning light
see your gun there, shining bright
shining bright
Now the storm is on its way
coming here to break the day
steaming rain
Oh, you go shoot me down
take my halo, yoke and crown
yoke and crown
so you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below
It's just bones
picking out better bones than your own
Oh, I see you creep in the dark
sticking pins into the rain
to wash away
it's just bones
So you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below
it's just bones
bones x 15
Black and blue, this beating heart's got the same blood as your own,
as your own.
So you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below
it's just bones
And I've been to the darkest place you know
it's just bones
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off the scale of excellence!
the last part should be
so how can love bare to see you, bare to see you go alone? black and blue, this beating heart's got the same blood as your own, as your own.
Yep I hear that to
Yep I hear that to
Yep the end is
Yep the end is
So how can love bare to see you, bare to see you go alone? black and blue, this beating heart's got the same blood as your own, as your own. So you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below it's just bones And I've been to the darkest place you know it's just bones
So how can love bare to see you, bare to see you go alone? black and blue, this beating heart's got the same blood as your own, as your own. So you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below it's just bones And I've been to the darkest place you know it's just bones
bones X8
bones X8
That last part is tricky... but here's my interpretation...
So how can love bare to see you, bare to see you go alone? And I can't bloom (?) (or, I have bloomed) this speeding heart's got the same bone as your own, as your own.
yeah, that makes some sense at least
Yeah, I think I agree with phipsie about the end. Up at the top you have "lives" instead of "lies." Good job though, better than I could've done.
Yeah, I think I agree with phipsie about the end. Up at the top you have "lives" instead of "lies." Good job though, better than I could've done.
Should probably be
take my halo, yoke and crown yoke and crown
instead of yolk.
This song is so epic.
Oh.. and it should be bear, not bare.
Oh.. and it should be bear, not bare.
"'cause I've been to the darkest place I know so you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below It's just bones"
and then
"I've been to the only place I know it's just bones So you, my dear, shouldn't fear what lies below it's just bones"
haunting. so comforting though for depression.
i have this on repeat.
Philippakis has never had therapy on his own, but says some of the lyrics in the album's closing track, What Remains, refer to a period of family therapy, which involved three psychiatrists staring at the Philippakises from behind glass: "And you'd feel the pressure from behind the glass, being relayed into the room … It felt like being in quicksand." He says he found the process frustrating and pointless, and though he doesn't want to reveal more about what he calls "family mental illness", he says he is haunted by the fear of turning into his father, and repeating the cycle of abandonment. "I do look up to him, but my mother says that I've inhabited his [emotional detachment] to try and understand him," he says. "The person you least understand in the family or is most distant, you become them. And that's how the cycle continues. You flip the damage on to yourself." However, songwriting is therapy, and Philippakis says singing about his troubles every night on stage makes him feel better. "It feels voodoo, like an exorcism," he says.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/06/foals-total-life-forever