Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Red Cow , by - mewithoutYou. Release date: 04.02.2016
Record label: Big Scary Monsters
Song language: English
Red Cow |
| Before the Red Sea flood beneath a cornhusk dawn |
| We bid the Elkhorn run to a locomotive psalm |
| Until the pale horse comes along a rail withdrawn |
| Clanging loudward on, clanging loudward on |
| We bid the Elkhorn run until the red cow comes |
| I was a steadfast son, with thoughts and hooves divided |
| And on the arid ground of thirsty Zion’s hill |
| Cold waters tumbled down where the staff of Moses fell |
| What Pharaoh spell, what picture holds us now? |
| Behold the snake of brass, the wind was blowing backwards |
| Behold a golden calf, blighted leaves of Law |
| O for the land we knew before the frogs withdrew |
| In the fragrant pomegranate blooms where the tender locust flew |
| Behind the milk-white tombs, behind the milk-tank cars |
| We passed the North Platte yard on silver tracks unguarded |
| Out past the sambar herds, out to the outcast birds |
| In the rust of open wagons, Lo! |
| the Blessed Virgin’s likeness |
| We watched the green figs fall from the Nebraska sky |
| How much were even passive things responsive to our watchful eye! |
| And let there be no doubt: so many figs and pictures hold us |
| In the wells of livestock vans with shells and garden sands |
| Iron mixed with oxygen as per the laws of chemistry and chance |
| A shape was roughly human, it was only roughly human |
| Apparition eyes apparition eyes Knock Apparition Knock eyes apparition eyes |
| Was he a violent man? |
| Well, he had his genocidal moments… |
| Or penned by fiction’s hand? |
| To whom could that phrase not apply? |
| How much are even lifeless sounds responsive to our listening ear! |
| What Pharoah now, what Paroah now, or Jew or picture holds us here? |