Turtles All The Way Down-Sturgill Simpson

[ti:Turtles All The Way Down] [ar:Sturgill Simpson] [al:Metamodern Sounds in Country Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Turtles All The Way Down - Sturgill Simpson [00:12.46]I've seen Jesus play with flames in a lake of fire [00:15.77] [00:16.94]That I was standing in [00:18.39] [00:23.16]Met the devil in Seattle and spent 9 months inside the lions den [00:29.09] [00:33.85]Met Buddha yet another time and he showed me a glowing light within [00:39.58] [00:44.78]But I swear that god is there every time [00:47.59]I glare in the eyes of my best friend [00:50.56] [00:55.24]Says my son it's all been done and someday yer [00:58.83]Gonna wake up old and gray [01:01.22] [01:05.73]So go and try to have some fun showing warmth to everyone [01:09.98] [01:10.78]You meet and greet and cheat along the way [01:13.83] [01:18.50]There's a gateway in our mind that leads somewhere out there [01:22.28] [01:22.78]Far beyond this plane [01:24.23] [01:29.04]Where reptile aliens made of light cut you open and pull out all your pain [01:34.99] [01:39.53]Tell me how you make illegal something that we all make in our brain [01:45.53] [01:49.93]Some say you might go crazy but then again it might make you go sane [01:56.04] [02:00.65]Every time I take a look inside old and fabled book [02:05.00] [02:05.97]I'm blinded and reminded of the pain caused by some old man in the sky [02:11.96] [02:16.69]Marijuana LSD psilocybin and dmt they all changed the way I see [02:24.32]But love's the only thing that ever saved my life [02:27.42] [02:32.02]So don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes [02:34.63]Or fairy tales of blood and wine [02:37.16]It's turtles all the way down the line [02:40.21] [02:42.39]So to each their own til' we go home [02:44.72]To other realms our souls must roam [02:47.63]To and through the myth that we all call space and time