Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Blameless lyrics

rate me

Why didn’t I just walk away?

I see what they’ve done to boys who refuse to bow down

Funny hour (?) of the setting sun

I burn right through the core of the earth to warn you about it

The latest trend is to pretend

And know what to follow around (?)

And you stare at the ceiling and leave me to steal from you

You’re walking away now, but I will not take anything

What’s done is done

Set them up, I will knock them down

You’re about to be stranded like me in this blameless American town

Don’t let them get to you

Did you think they’d be tying your shoes

Did you think they’d be bringing you around?

Your will just bends, as you pretend

And no one’s around

You stare at the ceiling, and leave me to steal from you

You’re walking away now, but I will not take anything

What’s done is done

And the farmer’s lost in the quicksand now, it is done

And I haven’t strength for the fixing now, it is done

To a mother and me, and the silence full of leaves

And the softest of touches will keep us from gnawing at the earth

And swinging at the breeze, and suddenly I …

Thanks to johnnywestwood for correcting these lyrics