You Hung the Moon

Album: National Ransom (2010)
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  • The homecoming fanfare is echoing still
    Now tapping on tables
    And sensing a chill
    Poor families expecting loved one's return
    Only summon some charlatan spectre
    Oh, when will they learn?

    You hung the moon
    From a gallows in the sky
    Choked out the light
    In his blue lunar eye

    The shore is a parchment
    The sea has no tide
    Since he was taken from my side

    The lines of the fallen are viewed through a glass
    But you cannot touch them at all
    Or hear their footfall just as they go past
    The drunken ground is where they are bound

    You hung the moon
    From a gallows in the sky
    Put out the light in his blue lunar eye

    The shore is a parchment
    The sea has no tide
    Since he was taken from my side

    So slap out his terrors
    And sneer at his tears
    We deal with deserters like this
    From the breech to the barrel, the bead we will level
    Break earth with a shovel, quick march on the double
    Lower him shallow like tallow down in the abyss

    You hung the moon
    From a gallows in the sky
    Choked out the light in his blue lunar eye

    The shore is a parchment
    The sea has no tide
    Since he was taken from my side
    Since he was taken from my side
    The homecoming fanfare is echoing still Writer/s: ELVIS COSTELLO
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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