A Song for Our Grandfathers-Future Islands

[ti:A Song For Our Grandfathers] [ar:Future Islands] [al:Singles] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Song for Our Grandfathers (给祖父的歌) - Future Islands [00:25.52]Written by：Samuel T. Herring/Gerrit Welmers/William Cashion [00:51.05]Been a long time in a low place [00:54.16] [00:57.48]Surrounded by what I have made [00:59.97] [01:03.84]Need to get away [01:05.22] [01:05.95]Get away from what relates [01:08.09] [01:08.62]And what was done [01:09.51] [01:11.11]Cuz it's all over now [01:12.70] [01:16.77]Through the woods I come running to loose leaf [01:20.68] [01:21.41]And carve my name [01:22.34] [01:23.56]In the lines there's not a trace [01:25.65] [01:29.33]I hear the ghost whisper and those old eyes watching me [01:33.70] [01:34.24]But I feel safe [01:35.67] [01:36.26]Grandfather looking over me [01:38.66] [01:44.37]He said [01:44.94] [01:46.89]Don't make them wait [01:48.10] [01:50.07]Gotta go a long way [01:51.88] [01:59.87]Let's be brave [02:01.24] [02:02.88]Don't make them wait [02:04.18] [02:05.20]Nah don't make them wait [02:07.58] [02:33.28]I sat down with a coffee on my bent knee [02:37.49] [02:38.31]Looking out at the burnt land looking back at me [02:43.21] [02:46.07]These used to be green crops [02:47.86] [02:48.40]And high on a summer breeze [02:50.49] [02:51.40]No it's fallow fields and clear cut barren weeds [02:55.43] [02:58.91]They said that if I stared [03:00.22] [03:01.08]The abyss would stare back at me [03:03.17] [03:03.84]And so I did [03:04.65] [03:05.91]And I felt it slowly creep in me [03:08.30] [03:11.99]Save for the smoke that danced when I took a drag [03:16.03] [03:17.25]It made me think about the way it all came to be [03:20.93] [03:21.86]Grandma watching over me [03:24.48] [03:26.52]And she said [03:27.28] [03:29.14]Don't make them wait [03:30.52] [03:32.30]Gotta go a long way [03:34.36] [03:42.39]Let's be brave [03:43.69] [03:45.12]Shouldn't them wait [03:46.76] [03:47.56]Nah don't make them wait [03:49.84] [04:01.15]Don't make them wait nah nah nah nah [04:04.65] [04:07.87]Don't make them wait [04:09.35] [04:15.90]I hear the ghost whisper [04:17.36] [04:17.99]And those old eyes watching me [04:20.61]But I feel safe [04:22.33] [04:26.82]I feel safe