Singing Ax

Song Singing Ax
Artist J. Tillman
Album Singing Ax

Lyrics

[00:10.842] It's been a brutal existence
[00:16.617] For most
[00:21.959] This far
[00:27.999] We were clawing in the dirt
[00:34.283] We were dying in birth
[00:41.571] We were grinding grain in the noon day sun
[00:51.434] With madmen spitting bloody feathers to appease the demons
[01:01.993] Oh
[01:11.081] It's been a godless existence
[01:16.627] For some
[01:22.187] This far
[01:27.967] We were breaking bread
[01:34.751] In a brotherhood of men
[01:41.277] No, I can't recall a single memory of our universal past
[01:51.319] And I've never felt a drop of blood fall from beneath my singing ax
[02:01.875] Oh
[02:27.767] It's been a voiceless wilderness
[02:33.563] For most
[02:38.602] Of us this far
[02:44.897] And there's no prophet on the mount
[02:51.927] Whose words won't be drowned out
[02:58.971] By our locust fingers clicking neverending in our lapse
[03:08.259] We traded in divine inheritance to break our pagan masks
[03:18.567] Are there none who walk among us who remember what we had?