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Palm Road Lyrics
My baby woke from an awful dream of rotten tropics by the sea
Just up from her father’s place
Cutting through some empty space
Where trash would turn to gold
Palm Road
We could see it from the shore,
The cities ragged burning core
Hole in the sky and the fish get drowned
Something moving underground
The world was ending slow
on Palm Road
Take your lover all apart
Looking for his shipwrecked heart
But his heart could not be found
Baby it just can’t be found
’Cause they turned the lights down low
On Palm Road
You said it’s killing me it’s killing me the way we go
But as we’re running over miles they turned to gold
So teach your darlings how to dance
Tell them how to make romance
And whisper things they don’t know
From a thousand years ago
Something began to glow….
You said it’s killing me the way we go
I saw it coming…
Just up from her father’s place
Cutting through some empty space
Where trash would turn to gold
Palm Road
The cities ragged burning core
Hole in the sky and the fish get drowned
Something moving underground
The world was ending slow
on Palm Road
Looking for his shipwrecked heart
But his heart could not be found
Baby it just can’t be found
’Cause they turned the lights down low
On Palm Road
But as we’re running over miles they turned to gold
Tell them how to make romance
And whisper things they don’t know
From a thousand years ago
You said it’s killing me the way we go
I saw it coming…
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I think it's "the trash will turn to gold" not "the trash will turn to go"? maybe not makes a bit more sense to me though.
and then later on "baby it just can't be found" instead of " baby you just can't be found".
The vocals in this song sound similar to Win Butler's in 'Keep the car running' =O
Ya, it's definitely "turns to gold".
It's quite hard to decipher Dan's vocals sometimes.
agreed.
agreed.
Rotten tropics... cutting through an empty space... where trash would turn to gold... the cities burning core... On a literal level, I think this song is about a new landfill being created near where protagonist grew up. Perhaps the local residents get paid off (...turning to gold) by the govt to let the landfill exist (like with oil drilling in Alaska). Our lifestyle is killing us because it's destroying and making us forget the beauty in life... And all we can do is savor what beauty we have left (So teach your darlings how to dance, Tell...
Rotten tropics... cutting through an empty space... where trash would turn to gold... the cities burning core... On a literal level, I think this song is about a new landfill being created near where protagonist grew up. Perhaps the local residents get paid off (...turning to gold) by the govt to let the landfill exist (like with oil drilling in Alaska). Our lifestyle is killing us because it's destroying and making us forget the beauty in life... And all we can do is savor what beauty we have left (So teach your darlings how to dance, Tell them how to make romance).