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The Shins
Chutes Too Narrow
Pink Bullets
I was just bony hands as cold as a winter pole
You held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold
Oh what a contrast you were
To the brutes in the halls
My timid young fingers held a decent animal.
Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
Tied to a brick
Sweet as a song
The years have been short but the days were long.
Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass
We fell in a field it seems now a thousand summers passed
When our kite lines first crossed
We tied them into knots
And to finally fly apart
We had to cut them off.
Since then it's been a book you read in reverse
So you understand less as the pages turn
Or a movie so crass
And awkardly cast
That even I could be the star.
I don't look back as much as a rule
And all this way before murder was cool
But your memory is here and I'd like it to stay
Warm light on a winter day.
Over the ramparts you tossed
The scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
Tied to a brick
Sweet as a song
The years have been short but the days go slowly by
Two loose kites falling from the sky
Drawn to the ground and an end to flight.
- Album:
- Heartworms
- Port of Morrow
- Chutes Too Narrow
- Oh, Inverted World
- Miscellaneous
- Score! 20 Years Of Merge Records
- Spotify Sessions
- Fighting In A Sack
- Such Great Heights
- Australia
- Sealegs (Radio Edit)
- Sealegs
- Australia (7' #2)
- Young Folks
- Christmas Rules
- Holidays Rule
- Pure... Acoustic
- 30 Stars: Acoustic
- Acoustic Café
- Ultimate... Coffeehouse