"When the Silver's Gone" Album Lyrics
1. Into the Trees (Demons At Play)
Mi amore I’m leaving town
A kiss goodbye will turn that frown
My feet take me deep into the trees
Where the wild things lurk and wait for me
An old dirt road leading into the dark
Where a creature awaits smoking a cigar
He tips his hat and he laughs like a clown
I’ll soon be buried deep down down down
All you demons at play
All you demons please stay
Mi amore I coming home
Now I know I’m only skin and bone
Mi amore I’m leaving town
A kiss goodbye will turn that frown
My feet take me deep into the trees
Where the wild things lurk and wait for me
2. On the Line
For many years it kept us warm
Covered our faces when things were torn
I’m not amused, I get bored, bored, bored
And I’m just thinking for today
If I don’t need you anymore I say that I get on without you a-okay
That everything is perfect just the same
If it comes to choosing sides, well I don’t mind
You choose yours and I’ll choose mine
This shit happens all the time
Just don’t leave me on the line
Oh, on the line
Packing blankets up a hill
I go to move, you’re standing still
I would ask you to go
I’m only scared that you’d say no
If you come to tell that I’m wrong
That this, this was bound to happen all along
That no one’s even listening to my song
If you come to question my worth
Will you ask me if we’re cursed
What’s the meaning of my words
What’s on second, who’s on first
Just don’t leave me on the line
Oh, on the line
3. Cowboys & Indians
Smoke stacks blowing smoke
Let the fire warm your bones
Darling I’m coming home
Sun is spiting desert heat
Vultures are circling
Darling I’m coming home
Oh daring oh how you’ve grown
Vines are reaching from the ground
Lightning strikes and thunder sounds
Darling I’m coming home
Oh darling Oh how you’ve grown
Death is coming for me tonight
I hope he knows what’s wrong and right
Pistol’s sitting by my side
I hope tomorrow the sun will rise
4. Strange Love
My dusty eyes have never seen
A sky so blue and a sea so green
A poisonous bite from a voodoo snake
Or the candle light on your lovely face
An old crow laughing at the moon
The soft glow from inside your room
An old train whistling choo choo
So long my friend ill see you soon
My tired ears have never heard
Something so strange and so absurd
A lion’s roar from a chimpanzee
Or how I adore to hear you speak
An old crow laughing at the moon
The soft glow from inside your room
An old train whistling choo choo
So long my friend ill see you soon
I’ll see you soon
I’ll see you soon
I’ll see you soon
5. Tabletop
I’ve got a secret
Tell you what you need
Get me a bible
I’m selling secrets of greed
You’ve got eyes that cut
Cut right through me
But I’ve got to know what the truth’s gonna be
Oh no
On the tabletop won’t you stop pounding out what you need
Won’t you put your head out of the door for what’s following me
Trade silver coins
For paper teeth
By the end of the night
You’re gonna know me
On the tabletop won’t you stop pounding out what you need
Won’t you put your head out of the door for what’s following me
6. The Worst Thing
Need a woman to hold me down
Speaks of silence in her town
There’s no telling what I’d do for a taste of her perfume
What’s the worst thing, what’s the worst thing I could do
For tonight you’re not alone
Turns her head and thinks of home
The sins that I confess
I tore a locket from her breast
What’s the worst thing, what’s the worst thing I could do
Say to me you are ashamed and I will take you from this place
My hands they scream and shake
I pray you don’t awake
What’s the worst thing, what’s the worst thing I could do
Tore your evening gown, but I will love you anyhow
What’s the worst thing, what’s thing I could do
Did the worst thing, did the worst thing I could do
7. Funeral March Interlude
Send you back home
There’s nowhere left to go
Send you back home
8.Rise Up
Rise up stillborn child
Body is broken so it might take a while
Singing rise up stillborn child
Bake your bones into bread for me
Open empty eyes
Blood and flesh will boil
Phantom limbs will tear through pine and soil
Guns are going off
Shovels digging down
Bones are crawling deep underground
Rise up stillborn child
Your body is broken so it might take a while
Singing rise up stillborn child
Bake your bones into bread for me
Bake your bones into bread for me
Cathedral pipes are wild
They’ll scream they’ll moan they’ll smile
The air will fill the lungs of this stillborn child
Sightless eyes can see
What rises from the ground
Cities on fire screams and sirens sound
You try whispering
But I just want to shout
That I’ll be holding on while your bleeding out
Rise up stillborn child
Your body is broken so it might take a while
Singing rise up stillborn child
Bake your bones into bread for me
Bake your bones into bread for me
9. Bluebirds & Honeybees
The honeybees leave kisses buzzing round the soul
Take the world’s poisons down the rabbit hole
From the oil in the ground
To the clouds in the sky
There’s only one moon
Don’t let it pass you by
Bluebirds are flying over the stormy seas
Earthquakes are shaking the apples from the trees
From the oil in the ground
To the clouds in the sky
There’s only one moon
Don’t let it pass you by
10. Little Bird
Little bird fly away home
Wolves are watching wherever you may roam
Bugs in ground
Nest in the trees
Flowers won’t grow
Unless there’s a seed
Little bird don’t go to sleep
Lions are trapped inside your dreams
On a street corner
In the middle of the town
There’s an open window
But the phone lines are down
Smoke billows over the trees
Lightening strikes the sea
Those lighthouse lights
Won’t save those ships
Won’t save those ships tonight
11. Me & the Wolf
I dreamt I went walking in the dead of night
With the stars looking down on me
I was followed by a pair of bright yellow eyes
that were staring hungrily
I said who’s there
The birds in trees were quiet as could be
As I wandered round the bend
The dust picked up the sweet smell of blood
And I was alone again
I soon came across an old wooden snare
And I set it for my friend
But a breath would quickly come and flood my lungs
When I heard the howling
I said who’s there
I laid face down in an old riverbed
That was hidden from the light
I wrote my true love’s name on the back of a leaf
And I whispered my goodbyes
12. Bloody Your Teeth
In the Summer Sand we played with our hands
Bottled broken bees
We do as we please
Iron estate
Your nightmares wait
City bleeds the sky while shining at night
Bones of golden feet climb over the trees
Indulging and feeding
You say there’s a new way around but there’s no ears to the ground
The kind of light you can find in your back yard
Are you digging graves for the stars
Conversation’s salvation awry
There’s no way to survive
No way to survive
Someone sleeps upstairs
We weren’t ever there
Dreams of stories told before we grew old
From underneath
Bloody your teeth
You may say that our lives go separate ways but don’t count me out this time
Sharpen your knives if it feels right but don’t
Now we’re waiting for painting to dry
Won’t you please come inside
Won’t you please come inside
13. Dead
What would you have to say if I left you buried this way
If I took off all your chains and I cleaned up all the remains
They’ll tell you that I had left and took everything that I could get
But I couldn’t bear speaking your name, so I put you to bed in a grave
Yes I put you to bed in a grave
Would you ask me what I’ve got behind my back, but it’s not a lot
You keep asking but it’s still the same
It’s a bullet and it’s calling your name
Yes, it’s a bullet and it’s calling your name
All Songs by Jones/Martin