Calamity Song

Album: The King Is Dead (2011)
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  • Had a dream
    You and me and the war at the end times
    And I believe
    California succumbed to the fault line
    We heaved relief
    As scores of innocents died

    And the Andalusian tribes
    Setting the lay of Nebraska alight
    'Til all the remains is the arms of the angel

    Hetty Green
    Queen of supply-side bonhomie bone-drab
    If you know what I mean
    On the road
    It's well-advised to follow your own path
    In the year of the chewable Ambien tab

    And the Panamanian child
    Stands at the Dowager Empress's side
    And all the remains is the arms of the angel
    And all the remains is the arms of the angels

    And you've receded into loam
    And they're picking at your bones
    Will call cold
    We'll come home

    Quiet now
    Will we gather to conjure the rain down
    Will we now
    Build a civilization below ground
    And I'll be crowned
    The community kicked it around

    And the Andalusian tribes
    Setting the lay of Nebraska alight
    'Til all the remains is the arms of the angel
    'Til all the remains is the arms of the angels Writer/s: COLIN MELOY
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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