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We Were Animals Lyrics by Yo‐Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Aoife O’Donovan

Not Our First Goat Rodeo

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[Verse]
When you wake up in the mornin' and you're feelin' low
And you know a cup of coffee won't get you goin'
Just rise and pretend you're thirty-two
We didn't know it then but we had it all
Our money hidden in a dresser drawer
Couple lovers in the basement shooting pool
I wanna go to where the getting's good
Plant some green and maybe chop wood
Have a baby and a plot of land
And in twenty-thirty-seven when she's twenty-one
And the birds are still sitting in the ochre sun
Tattoo forgiveness on hеr hand
[Bridge]
It feels like a song from the earth
To pull out a sword from a stonе
Raising it high
Let it go
[Verse]
I thought I was gonna be the one that got away
But you held tight so I stayed
I could be the flower, you the honeybee
I'll prop you up when you need it
I'll figure out how to feed it
The hungering for what I used to be
[Bridge]
It feels like a song from the earth
To pull out a sword from the stone
Raising it high
Let it go
[Chorus]
A kingdom made of trees
Douglas firs and Evergreens
Is it home, or a dream?
[Verse]
If I leave then you'll wanna know the reason why
Look yourself in the weary eyes
You can't be in wonderland anymore
[Bridge]
We stand in the eye of a storm
To pull out a sword from a stone
We're singing a song from the earth
Sing it loud, let it go
[Chorus]
A kingdom made of trees
Douglas firs, and Evergreens
Where the lines we've drawn between what's
Home and a dream are fading
We were animals when we grew this
We're just animals going through this
Credits
Yo‐Yo Ma

Yo‐Yo Ma

Stuart Duncan

Stuart Duncan

Edgar Meyer

Edgar Meyer

Chris Thile

Chris Thile

Aoife O’Donovan

Aoife O’Donovan

About “We Were Animals” by Yo‐Yo Ma

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"We Were Animals" appears on "Not Our First Goat Rodeo".

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