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