
Date of issue: 03.10.2009
Record label: 4AD
Song language: English
Matthew 25:21 |
They’d hooked you up to a fentanyl drip |
To mitigate the pain a little bit |
I flew in from Pennsylvania |
When I heard the hour was coming fast |
And I docked in Santa Barbara |
Tried to brace myself |
But you can’t brace yourself when the time comes |
You just have to roll with the blast |
And I’m an eighteen wheeler headed down the interstate |
And my brakes are going to give and I won’t know until it’s too late |
Tires screaming when I lose control |
Try not to hurt too many people when I roll |
Find the Harbor Freeway and head south |
Real tired, head kind of light |
I found Telegraph Road, I’d only seen the name on envelopes |
Found the parking lot and turned right |
I felt all the details carving out space in my head |
Tropicana’s on the walkway, neon red |
Between the pain and the pills trying to hold it at bay |
Stands a traveler going somewhere far away |
And I am an airplane tumbling wing over wing |
Tried to listen to my instruments, they don’t say anything |
People screaming when the engines quit |
I hope we’re all in crash position when we hit |
And then came to your bedside |
And as it turns out, I’m not ready |
And as though you were speaking through a thick haze |
You said hello to me |
We all stood there around you |
Happy to hear you speak |
The last of something bright burning, still burning |
Beyond the cancer and the chemotherapy |
And you were a presence full of light upon this earth |
And I am a witness to your life and to its worth |
It’s three days later when I get the call |
And there’s nobody around to break my fall |
Name | Year |
---|---|
No Children | 2003 |
Up the Wolves | 2005 |
This Year | 2005 |
Love Love Love | 2005 |
Autoclave | 2008 |
Woke Up New | 2006 |
See America Right | 2003 |
Dark in Here | 2021 |
Old College Try | 2003 |
Heretic Pride | 2008 |
Used To Haunt | 2015 |
Broom People | 2005 |
Dance Music | 2005 |
Pale Green Things | 2005 |
Dilaudid | 2005 |
In League with Dragons | 2019 |
Tallahassee | 2003 |
Magpie | 2005 |
Lovecraft in Brooklyn | 2008 |
You or Your Memory | 2005 |