Portastatic - Sour Shores lyrics

rate me

Even at the end of a day run ragged

Boxed in, locked out and haggard

There was the cluster of milky lights

Over the black hills; they ring this town

And you knew they'd be comin' down

Yeah, you knew they'd be comin' down

To swing low over the maritime

So thick, and without age

There's a place where even the old and used can hide

Until the light spills out of the open door

And you feel young again at the offer of a ride

Oh yeah, here's your ride

Oh yeah, here's your ride

Oh yeah, here's your ride

Surf's up, surf's up on sour shores

Oh, on our sour shores

You may black out your windows now

But I have not forgotten yours

Rain down, rain down on rotten doors

On down our rotten doors

And in the night you step outside

And wonder what this life is for

So put your ear to the door

Do you remember how the clues were scattered

A curled note in a buried box

Bone binding cracked from the years in the ground

But not shattered

Oh, your grandfather knew what mattered

Yeah, he knew, and he left it to you

So clear your head

Forget your bed tonight

Go where the sand glows black not red tonight

It's not a happy ending

It's just an escape from the light

And it's better than you ever read

Even if it's only in your sleepy head

Surf's up, surf's up on sour shores

Oh, on our sour shores

You may black out your windows now

But I have not forgotten yours

Rain down, rain down on rotten doors

On down our rotten doors

Our wings may not be fit to fly

But you will be weightless at your core

Oh yeah, here's your ride

Oh yeah, here's your ride

Oh yeah, here's your ride

Oh yeah, here's your ride