Future Islands - A Song for Our Grandfathers

[00:50.90] Been a long time in a low place [00:57.07] Surrounded by what I have made [01:03.46] Need to get away [01:05.57] Get away from what relates [01:08.47] And what was done [01:10.94] 'Cause it's all over now [01:16.30] Through the woods I go run to the loose leaf [01:21.13] And call my name [01:23.20] In the lines there's not a trace [01:29.12] I hear the ghost's whisper [01:31.43] And his old eyes watching me [01:33.84] But I feel safe [01:35.94] Grandfather looking over me [01:44.01] And he said: Don't make 'em wait [01:50.06] Gotta go a long way [01:59.58] Let's be brave [02:02.86] Don't make them wait [02:05.09] No, don't make them wait [02:33.07] I sat down, with a coffee on a bent knee [02:38.05] Looking up, at the burnt land looking back at me [02:45.98] These used to be green crops and high on a summer breeze [02:50.94] Now it's fallow fields [02:53.12] And clear-cut barren weeds [02:58.82] They said that if I stared [03:00.88] The abyss would stare back at me [03:03.67] And so it did, and I felt it slowly creeping me [03:11.44] Save for the smoke, it danced when I took a drag [03:17.06] It made me think about the way it all came to be [03:21.55] Grandmama watching over me [03:26.44] And she said: Don't make 'em wait [03:32.30] Gotta go a long way [03:41.96] Let's be brave [03:45.11] Show them the way [03:47.27] Ah, don't make them wait [04:00.73] Don't make them wait, nah [04:07.18] Don't make them wait [04:15.81] I hear the ghost whisper [04:17.54] And those old eyes are watching me [04:20.12] But I feel safe [04:27.02] I feel safe [04:34.36]