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The Salt Crown Lyrics by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

In Glorious Times

2007

[Verse 1]
Now I have your shoes
Today I wear your old black shirt
I have the things that I gave to you
But soon I'll be ready to give them back
[Refrain 1]
Give them back
Come, oh come, and get them
Come, oh come, and get them
[Refrain 2]
Shale-skin, salt-crown, slate-feather, corpse-down
Stone-blood, flesh-bane, life-bone, death-vein, salt-crown
[Verse 2]
Face the sunrise with eyes made of light
Swallow the early song with eardrums made of the first sound
Break the soft young earth with limbs made of the oldest stone
[Bridge]
Through our watery eyes, stone watches itself standing
Alone, forever, against the flickering sky
Through our watery mouths, stone calls itself by a new name
Bones of the earth
Stone
Stone
[Verse 3]
The bones call the stones by name
Crying, "Come, old mother, and cover me."
The stones show the bones the way of the silent, lifeless Salt Crown!
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 4]
The bones call the stones of the earth by name
Crying, "Come, old mother's father, and bury me."
The stone shows the bones the way of the ageless, deathless Salt Crown!
[Refrain 2]
Shale-skin, salt-crown, slate-feather, corpse-down
Stone-blood, flesh-bane, life-bone, death-vein, salt-crown
Shale-skin, salt-crown, slate-feather, corpse-down
Stone-blood, flesh-bane, life-bone, death-vein, salt-crown
[Verse 5]
Now you've gone back in
And I'll stay out with your bones, burned and ground to sand
Keep watch with the faces you made with your hands
But soon I'll be ready
No, I'm not ready to give them back
[Refrain 1]
Give them back
Come, oh come, and get them
Come, oh come, and get them
[Sample]
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Credits
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

About “The Salt Crown” by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

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