Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Out of Pawn, artist - Anaïs Mitchell. Album song The Brightness, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 12.02.2007
Record label: Wilderland
Song language: English
Out of Pawn |
Hey uncle louie, I wrote you a song |
I’m glad you got your heart out of pawn |
I’m glad you got your king out of check |
At least that’s how things stood when I saw you last |
It was New Orleans before the flood |
You had just met a girl! |
you were falling in love! |
She lived on the levee and knew the blues |
And played harmonica better than you |
In a neighborhood bar |
In the middle of summer |
Shoulder-to-shoulder |
Setting like sister and brother |
All of the sorrows you told each other |
Rose like smoke from the room |
The heat and the bourbon was in your head |
You were talking in tongues! |
you were back from the dead! |
And the girl and the city were one and the same |
And last call never came |
And I can see you swimming out into the street |
I can hear you singing, «when I die, don’t cry for me» |
Hey uncle louie, the city is spinning |
She sure is pretty. |
you sure are grinning |
She’s leading you home from the heat of the bar |
To lie on the levee and look at the stars |
You can hold her hand |
You can kiss her face |
Go slow if you can |
Cause the world is a very sad place |
And when she leaves she’ll leave no trace |
And the world will still be there |
The sky is colored in purple and yellow |
You lie on the levee with stones for pillows |
And you and the girl and the city make love |
With the harlequin sky up above |