Shovels & Ropes - Shank Hill lyrics

rate me

We’re buzzing like a locust

Vibrating right out of my skin

Pounding on the butcher’s wall

Somebody come and let me in

There’s a black hair woman

Carrying rolling pin

But your man he’s got a secret

But she knows where he’s been yeah

She knows where he’s been

And it will be a long time for the sunshine

On shank hill street again

You see early in the morning

For the warm wind of the dawn

She saw a thin man and a shadow

Make a way across the lawn

There was a russet, was a razor

And a whisper of a prayer

In the rhythm of the mallet

Like a heart beat in the air

And it will be a long time for the sunshine

On shank hill street again

With a handshake like a hammer

And suicide grin

That wooden door, creaked open

And the butcher man let me in yes

It’s like that, he let me in

But I’ve wasted, not a minute

I was on him like a whip

For one last minute

He feel that heart break, drip, drip, drip, drip,

And it will be a long time for the sunshine

On shank hill street again.