Burn-The Low Anthem

[ti:Burn] [ar:The Low Anthem] [al:Smart Flesh] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Burn - The Low Anthem [00:03.15]Did I burn each last bit of myself [00:09.96]Did I turn my back on the kid in myself [00:15.34] [00:16.40]And tear the oldest root [00:20.71] [00:22.14]In a charlatan's pursuit [00:27.19] [00:28.07]And the world drifting farther away [00:36.12] [00:40.30]On the run with nowhere to hide [00:47.19]The black angel still clings to my side [00:53.11]You know he's faster than [00:59.50] [01:01.44]Any man [01:04.56] [01:05.62]And the world drifting further away [01:14.13] [01:18.19]What I told you lover I guess that I meant [01:24.49]By the time that you read this I will have repented [01:30.97]I know I am a fool [01:36.33] [01:37.21]For trying to play it cruel [01:41.83] [01:43.26]And you played so much kinder than I [01:51.31] [01:55.55]Your memory now is the shadow to my shadow [02:01.73]I wind it tight like a player piano [02:07.54]Your skirt above your knees [02:13.84]I watch you press the keys [02:20.01]It calms the smarting flesh [02:25.76]Of the wound we have undressed [02:31.19] [03:09.43]If still there's a song deep in this marrow [03:15.73]Who lets you draw that last shivering arrow [03:21.84]What kind of smarting loon [03:27.16] [03:27.92]Believes that he can shoot the moon [03:33.66] [03:34.41]Calm these frailing nerves [03:39.83] [03:40.64]They ask to be preserved [03:46.26] [03:47.26]I was ashamed and mute [03:53.09]Fumbling around for my parachute [03:59.08]Then gliding through the rain [04:05.26]Not a drop could leave its stain [04:11.25]And the world drifting farther away