
Date of issue: 10.11.2014
Record label: Rough Trade, What's Your Rupture?
Song language: English
Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth |
I’d seen the bloodlands of Antietam |
The shotgun shack in Tupelo |
But a brick circumference left hollow by Sherman |
Crumbling before me how it moaned |
His shape swallows my recollection |
That phantom silhouette implied |
Strange fruit rotting from an airborne and hotter than hell |
Is this the king’s last man I’ve spied? |
I stood there beside my companion |
Scratching a rumor he had heard |
Do you have a gun? |
What? |
He said, yeah, you mean this one? |
Straight down the barrel was his word |
And I smelt the fumes he inhaled swiftly |
Each word was hinged upon his choke |
Like kudzu creeping up a state tree discretely |
Forever bending as it broke |
And I heard the jangling keys of Graceland |
Ring from his teeth stained brown from coke |
Drunk and stumbling like a man of distinction |
They clamored shaking as he spoke |
Of droves of pilgrims at his doorway |
Of Reagan, Carter, Clinton, Gore |
Fortunes offered them, refused routinely |
This ain’t no damn auction house he swore |
Black male standing around 6 foot something |
Ebbs through the waves of small town blight |
A minute coldly from southern affection |
Collides secretly into night |
Forgive those who trespass against us |
Began as the dead intruders plea |
Into the very muzzle I’d once peered into |
He gives the last words he will speak |
But that broken glass supports forced entry |
Reminds his lawyer through the phone |
What southern judge do you know, comforting gently |
Who jails white men who defend their home |
No souls were present for the moment |
His bombed out brick walls finally fell |
Lying face down in the throes of atonement |
Checked out of the Heartbreak Hotel |
He was the uncast shadow of a southern myth |
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