A Machine Spiritual (In The People's Key)

Album: The People's Key (2011)
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  • The people's key
    Ringing through arena seats
    The black machine
    Played it all from memory
    A fever dream
    Well, I'll come back eventually
    To wade into the water
    Another and another

    We go
    Form some kind of code
    The bodies float
    And form some kind of code
    The bodies float
    Someone's out to know

    Papa hobo
    Don't hide your eyes
    Mother mountain
    Don't kill your unborn child
    His day is coming
    His day is coming

    A question burns
    Beneath the centuries of dirt
    That voice you've heard
    Well, every head's a different world
    Well, mine's concerned
    I boarded up the windows
    A catatonic plateau
    A backwards black-faced minstrel show
    So just let me go
    The prisoner moans
    Oh, just let me go
    The prisoner moans
    No one has to know

    Eva Braun went to dye her hair
    Little Hitler sighs in his giant's chair
    And dreamed of nowhere
    And dreamed of nowhere
    And dreamed

    The people's key
    Ringing filling everything
    The theme repeats
    Thinner than the galaxy
    Impart to me
    Your wisdom and eventually
    I'll float into the ether
    Another from another

    We grow
    Form some kind of code
    Of flesh and bone
    We form some kind of code
    Of flesh and bone
    No, you're not alone

    History bows and it steps aside
    In the jungle there's columns of purple light
    We're starting over
    We're starting over
    We're starting
    We're starting Writer/s: Conor M Oberst
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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