THE OWL & THE ELEPHANT
Lyrics - © 2010 Shayfer James
1. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
I think I found a passage out of here
Maybe we could make out great escape
You didn’t think we’d make it did you dear?
Somewhere in this dark you lost your faith
Drink to the dawn we’ll be home
Cause Life is Beautiful
Save all your prayers while we’re gone
Cause Life Is Beautiful
I think I see some sunlight peeking through
It won’t be very long until we’re done
I will be a hero, so will you
Just look up and scream, hey, can any anyone,
Can anyone hear me?
Drink to the dawn we’ll be home
Cause Life Is Beautiful
Save all your prayers while we’re gone
Cause life Is Beautiful
And if the follow us you go ahead, I’ll meet you there
Cause Life Is Beautiful
Drink to the dawn we’ll be home
Cause Life Is Beautiful
Save all your prayers while we’re gone
Cause life Is Beautiful
2. BAYONNETTES
Her lies match her dress
Beautiful, white, and just about harmless
And his eyes speak his past
Colorful, wild, and totally ruthless
Oh, this bed and this mess were both made
Were both made in silence
In a fight to the death
Where these broken promises fix Bayonnettes
And he said
This is your, this is your nightmare
This is your fairytale love, your fairy tale love
That look in your eye
Is certain to try and divide us
As the sun, in it’s sky
Is threatening, is threatening violence
And he said
This is your, this is your nightmare
This is your fairytale love, your fairy tale love
This is your night
She said, how will I get along, how will I get along?
And he said
This is your, this is your nightmare
This is your fairytale love, your fairy tale love
This is your night
3. SIREN SONG
She got the mystery of a masquerade
She make a meal of crow and watch you beg for it
She got the wisdom of a whispered scream
She build your prison in a dirty dream
She got the beauty of a thousand ships
She break your body with her bag of tricks
Surely as the moon will rise, she’ll fasten daggers to your eyes
She waited for her prince to come and shot him with his royal gun
Look who’s laughing now, baby
Big hunter man become the prey
Look who’s laughing now, baby
The Siren Song begin to play
The got the kind of love that call you back
It’ll bleed you there and watch you crack on the floor
Surely as the moon will rise, she’ll fasten daggers to your eyes
She waited for her prince to come and shot him with his royal gun
Look who’s laughing now, baby
Big hunter man become the prey
Look who’s laughing now, baby
The Siren Song begin to play
This has got to be the end
For all this outwitting there is no forgiving
You can’t go on living when heaven’s forbidding
Look who’s laughing now, baby
Big hunter man become the prey
Look who’s laughing now, baby
The Siren Song begin to play
4. WHEN HEAVEN CLOSES
Weave a chain of bloomless roses
Drink disdain in double doses
Dig my grave When Heaven Closes
Picture me in painted poses
Incomplete and out of focus
Dig my grave When Heaven Closes
And if I’m already dead
This heavy weight upon my head
A simple stone that bares my name
Above the words himself to blame
And if I’m already dead
This heavy weight upon my head
A simple stone that bares my name
Above the words plead dig my grave
When Heaven Closes
5. TOMBSTONE ROAD
Oh the air is here is getting thick
from all the dirty ciga-rhetoric
Oh I can feel my inside turning black
And if words were dollars
I'd want mine back
Ooooh, every body gather round
they better head for higher ground
Ooooh, ever body gather round
I'm gonna burn this building down
You know for every Tombstone Road they pave, they're gonna throw a ticker
tape parade, and every thousand years that trickle by they'll find another
prophet to crucify
Ooooh, every body gather round
they better head for higher ground
Ooooh, ever body gather round
I'm gonna burn this village down
And when they're warm and cozy
in their beds, we're gonna paint
ourselves in black and red
we're gonna batter down
the gilded doors
and put the writing on the walls
and the ceilings, and the floors
anywhere we fancy the truth belongs
Ooooh, every body gather round
they better head for higher ground
Ooooh, ever body gather round
We're gonna burn this city down
6. YOUR FATHER'S SON
Wielding words like aimless arrows
You should be careful where you stand
It could be days it could be hours
But every arrow’s got to land
So if you’re any good at riddles
You should take a crack at this
If every second has a fiddle
Does every razor have a wrist?
It fits so well
What you’ve become is
Your Fathers Son, which
Will never be much of anyone
Stealing time in raids and riots
Now you’ve more than you can hold
So you’re gambling with a giant
From some fairy tale you told
So if you’re any good at bluffing
I suggest you do it quick
Cause every one is next to nothing
And every tock will have a tick
It fits so well
What you’ve become is
Your Fathers Son, which
Will never be much of anyone
What you’ve become cannot be undone
And you’ll never come to much of anyone
God help you if you ever need a friend
God help you if you ever need a friend
God help you if you ever need a friend
God help you if you ever, ever...
Well
What you’ve become is
Your Fathers Son, which
Will never be much of anyone
What you’ve become cannot be undone
And you’ll never come to much of anyone
7. EVERY FALLEN FEATHER
My angel didn’t fall she landed
In spite of what the gods commanded
She nourished my eyes wearing only her wings
And we stayed up all night doing heavenly things
She told me they would come to find her
That there wasn’t any way to hide her
So I bolted the doors like the fool that I am
And I cried in her arms, I am only a man
She replied, that might be true
But I think much more of you
So for seven days I walked beside her
And for seven nights I slept inside her
But I woke on the eighth with a cold on my skin
And a space in the place where her face should have been
And I knew that they had come to get her
So I gathered Every Fallen Feather
She had warned me of this but I always refused
When she said I’d move on, because that’s what men do
I replied, that might be true,
But I think much more of you
And as the years go by, I’ll be looking to the heavens
So I went to search the sky one morning
And I saw her on the ground before me
With a tear in her eye and a bruise on her chin
And a wound on her back where her wings should have been
So I knelt down at her side to touch her
And she told me that the fall had crushed her
In exchange for her sins I’d be damned for all time
So she gave them her wings if it meant I’d get mine
So I held her as the sun I was rising
And I whispered as her heart was fighting
I’ll pray for the day that those fools follow through
Cause I’ll make them all pay for what they’ve done to you.
She replied, that might be true
But I think much more...
8. GRIND MY BONES
I am a moment slowly dying
Soon I will only cross your mind from time to time
I’ll be the pattern in your ceiling cracks
As you resist another glass of wine
I am a solitary sentence
I share not poetry or prose and everybody knows
I have no marvelous inflection
Just random letters grouped in lines and rows.
Now I’m waiting for the lord up above to Grind My Bones, love
I’m waiting for the lord up above to Grind My Bones
Now as the walls around us crumble
Watch all the idiots and hypocrites rebel
You are two dashes and a number
And all of your complaining couldn’t save you from yourselves
Now I’m waiting for the lord up above to Grind My Bones, love
While you’re prayin to the ghost in your blood to save your souls
Here I’m waiting for the lord up above to Grind My Bones
I’m waiting for the lord up above to Grind My Bones
Luckily I’m not alone there’s many here around me
In ever fist there is a stone that’s set to cast
Once upon a time I was lost and nothin found me
You better know that when I go I’m goin fast
Now I’m waiting for the lord up above to guide me home
While you’re prayin to the ghost in your blood to save your souls
Here I’m waiting for the lord up above to Grind My Bones
I’m waiting for the lord up above to Grind My Bones
9. INSINCERELY YOURS
Oh I do appreciate your concern
But I never met a match I couldn’t burn
I’m designed for the strike
And inclined to ignite
Even after the ashes are safe in the urn
It’s a fact I often hesitate to tell
Like a window at the bottom of a well
It resides out of sight, but it shines pretty bright
When you face the reflection of how far you fell
And oh the fun we’ll have
I’ll be yours with exceptions of course
And oh the fun we’ll have
I’ll be Insincerely Yours
I’ll indulge in every story that you tell
While I spin you like an ancient carousel
Where the old engineer wears a gold bandoleer
And bewilders the horses with whistles and bells
You’ll be waiting for my love to keep you warm
Like a lady by a lighthouse in a storm
And you’ll choke with remorse when by ship changes course
For a port with a harbor more sturdy than yours
And oh the fun we’ll have
I’ll be yours with exceptions of course
And oh the fun we’ll have
I’ll be Insincerely Yours
Please believe I never meant you harm
If you believe that dear you’ve got a lot to learn
And oh the fun we’ll have
I’ll be yours with exceptions of course
And oh the fun we’ll have
I’ll be Insincerely Yours
10. FOR NOW, GOODBYE
There is a wall through which I dare not step
Mahogany and stone
We have been warned time and time again
To reassemble and atone
There is a lantern shining dark upon this winters day
And a castle in the corner of my eye
Built out of blood and clay
I am equal parts a criminal and king
And I would steal to be the master of a thing
But For Now, Goodbye.
For now
There’s a riverbank we sinners must descend
Where a ferry waits
And perhaps I’d rather be a man who burns
Then one who hesitates
I have memorized the lines of our repose
And I am tracing now
The fragrance of each mystery we compose
Is in my skin somehow
I would tremble in the hands of my disgrace
To lick the sweat of our salvation from your face
But For Now, Goodbye
For Now, Goodbye
For Now, Goodbye
For Now, Goodbye