Tortoises All The Way Down letra

Watchmen with their eyes closed
Ransom and a scripture by the picture of your face
Messages the rhymes chose
Blueprint for contrition in a cigarette case

Everybody knows, son
Everybody knows what you've done
Everybody knows, son
Everybody knows exactly what you’ve done

Charles was alive then
Towering like a mountain at the silver trumpet blast
William still alive till when
Our altars are all emptied of his offerings to the last

Everybody knows, son
Everybody knows just what you've done
Everybody knows, son
And so again it goes you can't end what you've begun

Surely as the Sun
Early on the east side comes
Before my sleepless eyes
Your features metamorphize

Surely as the Sun
Early on the east side comes
If only you had known
How soon you'd be on your own
How suddenly they'd cast the stone

When the mouths of praise and blame start to sound the same
And you’ve asked they please not come back around
And yet they happen by, you can offer my reply
There's tortoises all the way down

Since the night you came
Dressed up in your righteous name
All you claim to see
Doesn’t mean a thing to me

Surely as the Sun
Early on the east side comes
I know I'm not the only one

Whose blindfold and a scale ship refused to sail
And yet failed since each search for solid ground
You sing to me at night as the moving finger writes
On tortoises all the way down

You think that glass of wine could cancel half a line?
But it won’t wash our words out this time
And I'm not the only one who’s got nowhere to run

'Cause everybody knows, son
Everybody knows just what you’ve done
Everybody knows, son
Everybody knows what you’ve done

While all hiding inside our painting of a house
Hung up inside that same painted house
Which ever implies another painted house inside lives

Serpent in the sky lives
Servants of the least high
Most tortoiseless lives

Would you meet me sometime soon, son
Down by the riverside?
There's room enough in my paradise
My empty little mind

mewithoutYou - Letras

• 2,459 Miles
• A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains
• A Stick, a Carrot & String
• All Circles (feat. Hayley Williams)
• Allah, Allah, Allah
• Another Head For Hydra
• Aubergine
• Be Still Child
• Bear's Vision Of St. Agnes
• Birnam Wood
• Blue Hen
• Break On Through (To The Other Side) (Pt. II)
• Brownish Spider
• Bullet To Binary
• C-Minor
• Cardiff Giant
• Carousels
• Cattail Down
• D-minor
• Disaster Tourism
• Dorothy
• Dying Is Strange And Hard
• East Enders Wives
• Elephant In The Dock
• Every Thought a Thought Of You
• Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt
• February 1878
• Fig With a Bellyache
• Fiji Mermaid
• Flamethrower
• Flee, Thou Matadors!
• Four Word Letter
• Four Word Letter (Part Two)
• Fox's Dream Of The Log Flume (feat. Hayley Williams)
• Gentlemen
• Goodbye, I !
• Grist For The Malady Mill
• I Never Said That I Was Brave
• In A Market Dimly Lit
• In A Sweater Poorly Knit
• January 1979
• Julia (or, 'Holy to the LORD' on the Bells of Horses)
• Leaf
• Lilac Queen
• Magic Lantern Day
• Messes Of Men
• Mexican War Streets
• Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
• My Exit, Unfair
• New Wine, New Skins
• Nice And Blue
• Nice And Blue (Part Two)
• Nine Stories
• O, Porcupine
• Orange Spider
• Pale Horse
• Paper Hanger
• Rainbow Signs
• Red Cow
• Seven Sisters
• Silencer
• Son Of A Widow
• The Angel Of Death Came To David's Room
• The Cure For Pain
• The Dryness And The Rain
• The Fox, The Crow, And The Cookie
• The Ghost
• The King Beetle On a Coconut Estate
• The Soviet
• The Sun And The Moon
• Tie Me Up! Untie Me!
• Timothy Hay
• Torches Together
• Tortoises All The Way Down
• Watermelon Ascot
• We Know Who Our Enemies Are
• Wendy & Betsy
• Winter Solstice
• Wolf Am I! (And Shadow)
• Yellow Spider