White Hinterland - A Beast Washed Ashore lyrics

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?Neath the leaden lid<br />

I saw your face<br />

Ashen and pale as you walked away<br />

And I stayed behind <br />

Oh Where'd you go<br />

Dearest friend of mine<br />

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Can you recall the lurid scene of savagery<br />

The sea beast belly-up and beached<br />

Twice as long as a seven mast ship<br />

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They took him apart with pliers and a crane<br />

Oh they took him apart, though it took several days<br />

And they took him apart and the townspeople came<br />

And chit-chattered away<br />

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The sky that night seemed lacerated<br />

Each cloud a con- contusion<br />

Some wade in the water to wash his bones off<br />

I wade in the water and I watch ?em<br />

Then they stack him up on a pushcart<br />

Haul him off to the maritime museum<br />

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The horizon boasts a widowed light<br />

That punches pinholes ?tween the sycamores and pines<br />

And through the sodden bogs I make my way back home<br />

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The biddies of the town can chew this tale down<br />

And gnaw it into skeletal scraps ?til fiction is fact<br />

See the truckling trees, bare in the air<br />

But for struggling kites<br />

Oh! His bones are bleached, laid out on the truck<br />

His teeth are brushed and his mouth is shut<br />

His bones are tied with twine and screws<br />

Put on poles, hoisted up in a room<br />

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I recall looking once ?neath your lids<br />

To a universe full of starts<br />

And the days drag on awfully long <br />

When you're not one who can carry on<br />

Chit-chattering away<br />

Chit-chattering away...<br />