A Song for Our Grandfathers Future Islands

[00:50.90] Been a long time in a low place
[00:57.07] Surrounded by what I have made
[01:03.46] Need to get away
[01:05.57] Get away from what relates
[01:08.47] And what was done
[01:10.94] 'Cause it's all over now
[01:16.30] Through the woods I go run to the loose leaf
[01:21.13] And call my name
[01:23.20] In the lines there's not a trace
[01:29.12] I hear the ghost's whisper
[01:31.43] And his old eyes watching me
[01:33.84] But I feel safe
[01:35.94] Grandfather looking over me
[01:44.01] And he said: Don't make 'em wait
[01:50.06] Gotta go a long way
[01:59.58] Let's be brave
[02:02.86] Don't make them wait
[02:05.09] No, don't make them wait
[02:33.07] I sat down, with a coffee on a bent knee
[02:38.05] Looking up, at the burnt land looking back at me
[02:45.98] These used to be green crops and high on a summer breeze
[02:50.94] Now it's fallow fields
[02:53.12] And clear-cut barren weeds
[02:58.82] They said that if I stared
[03:00.88] The abyss would stare back at me
[03:03.67] And so it did, and I felt it slowly creeping me
[03:11.44] Save for the smoke, it danced when I took a drag
[03:17.06] It made me think about the way it all came to be
[03:21.55] Grandmama watching over me
[03:26.44] And she said: Don't make 'em wait
[03:32.30] Gotta go a long way
[03:41.96] Let's be brave
[03:45.11] Show them the way
[03:47.27] Ah, don't make them wait
[04:00.73] Don't make them wait, nah
[04:07.18] Don't make them wait
[04:15.81] I hear the ghost whisper
[04:17.54] And those old eyes are watching me
[04:20.12] But I feel safe
[04:27.02] I feel safe
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