Sister Tilly

Album: Keep Your Courage (2023)
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  • Oh, Miss Tilly, I think you should know
    Everyone's missing you here
    With your hair in a mess, in your outdated dress
    When Halston was all the rage
    Back in your Chelsea Girl days

    Oh, Miss Tilly, I think you should know
    Everyone's missing you here
    With your bright yellow walls and your pashmina shawls
    Crystals, chimes and your moonflower vines
    Tinctures, teas and your secret remedies
    And your voice like Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Oh, I just can't believe that you're gone
    You've gone so far away
    That you're gone
    You've gone so far away
    Gone

    Oh, Miss Tilly, I think you should know
    Everyone's missing you here
    Your fortune telling cards, prayer flags in the yard
    Your Rilke poems and your stacks of Mother Jones
    Your feminist raves in your Didion shades
    And your Zeppelin, so loud and so proud

    Your Zeppelin, so loud and so proud

    Here's to your days at the barricades
    Here's to the girls in the fray
    Oh, how I wish you could stay
    But you're gone, you've gone so far away
    But you're gone, gone
    You've gone so far away
    Gone, mmm
    Gone

    Oh, you've gone away
    You've gone away
    Oh, you've gone
    You've gone away

    Sister Tilly, you go on without us
    Sister Tilly, you don't think about us now
    Everything fades away

    Sister Tilly, you're a superpower
    Sister Tilly, you're a lotus flower now
    Everything fades away

    Sister Tilly, you're a constellation
    Sister Tilly, you're a white light vibration now
    Everything fades away

    No craving for sensation
    No want, and no temptation now
    Tears fall down like rain

    No fear and no delusion
    No doubt and no confusion now
    Tears fall down like rain

    There's nothing but the big forever
    There's nothing but a sweet surrender now

    You're a constellation
    A white light vibration now
    A superpower, a lotus flower
    No sensation, no temptation
    No delusion, no confusion now

    Go on
    Go on without us
    Don't think about us now
    Go on Writer/s: NATALIE MERCHANT
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing, UBEM (União Brasileira de Editoras de Música)
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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