Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song To the Boneyard, artist - Los Campesinos!. Date of issue: 03.06.2021
Song language: English
To the Boneyard |
| Respite in twilight, space in the cavity |
| Wall at grandparent’s house behind the apple tree |
| Where once you sang with your siblings now |
| Watching bodies bobbing down the stream, leaving the town |
| I’m a picture of no flesh, only bones |
| As we’re stripping off my skin to run it up the pole |
| And salute the breeze that ripples the sheath |
| Of the skeleton that’s trembling on the ground beneath |
| Walked your entire country up the central reservation |
| Take me to the boneyard, baby |
| Take me to the boneyard, baby |
| The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation |
| Take me to the boneyard, baby |
| Take me to the boneyard, baby |
| We rifle through piles of bones |
| For something to chew on, for something to own |
| Through my teenage years at my mother’s house |
| Every evening, six times, there comes a phone call to ask |
| «Where's my daughter gone?» |
| She moved six years ago |
| Now receiver’s cold, the phone calls dry, there’s no one home |
| And that is what we feared the most |
| Walked your entire country up the central reservation |
| Take me to the boneyard, baby |
| Take me to the boneyard, baby |
| The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation |
| Take me to the boneyard, baby |
| Take me to the boneyard, baby |
| We rifle through piles of bones |
| For something to chew on, for something to own |
| We rifle through piles of bones |
| For something to chew on, for something to own |
| And so we stitched our eyes and mouths closed |
| Lest we open them |
| Breaking the seal that our bodies have formed |
| As a natural defence just to hold back the sorrow |
| That friends made today will be deaths mourned tomorrow |