Hometown Hooray-White Hinterland

[ti:Hometown Hooray] [ar:White Hinterland] [al:Phylactery Factory] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hometown Hooray - White Hinterland [00:17.49]Down by the old stone church [00:21.08]Where the joe pye w**d and the mallows grow [00:24.97]Those petals bigger then my fist [00:28.90]Watch them bob and bow when the wind does blow [00:32.58] [00:33.65]There grows a cypress tree [00:36.77]And in its trunk I carved you name [00:40.48] [00:41.06]And right beside it I carved mine [00:44.59] [00:49.89]They'll give you the hometown hooray [00:53.23] [00:53.92]When you come home baby [00:56.50] [00:57.76]Bronze your combat boots [01:00.39]And set your bones in clay [01:02.80] [01:05.44]Write down every word you ever had to say [01:10.43] [01:12.28]No one wants to believe you died in vain [01:16.33] [01:35.50]The first spring that you were gone [01:39.12]The women who lived on the flat roof tops [01:42.60] [01:43.47]Had sherds sewn with quickly germinating seeds of greens [01:49.65] [01:51.23]In all of their sapphic celebrations [01:54.44]They held fires and dances chanted your name [01:58.46]Tied yellow ribbons round the trunks of trees in town [02:04.31] [02:07.16]They'll give you the hometown hooray [02:10.65] [02:11.43]When you come home baby [02:14.71] [02:15.25]Bronze your combat boots [02:17.72]And set your bones in clay [02:20.14] [02:22.77]Write down every word you ever had to say [02:27.61] [02:29.29]With homeric undertones and half the length [02:33.42] [02:51.57]The skies held a collusion of their own [02:55.69] [02:58.16]And on the sunniest day there ever was [03:02.60]You died at the tusk of a bayonet [03:06.62]And aphrodite found your body [03:10.25]Sprinkled nectar in your wounds [03:11.99] [03:13.77]And you blood dripped red anemones [03:17.61]That shimmered just like precious stones [03:21.43]And they floated down the riverbank [03:24.94]To the tributary that now shares your name [03:28.72]And the rapids from then on ran red [03:32.39]They run red to this day [03:35.19] [03:37.57]They'll give you the hometown hooray [03:40.75] [03:41.29]When you come home baby [03:44.18]Oh bronze your combat boots [03:46.63] [03:47.20]And set your bones in clay [03:49.77] [03:52.28]Write down every word you ever had to say [03:57.11] [03:58.56]With homeric undertones and half the length [04:02.98] [04:06.67]We used to walk past the blue schoolhouse [04:13.10] [04:14.09]We wore our love like it was a crown [04:19.70] [04:20.39]And our skin was a map we knew by heart [04:27.36] [04:27.98]We never once got lost [04:30.81] [04:31.95]We never once got lost [04:34.44] [04:35.87]No one wants to believe you died in vain [04:40.08] [04:57.86]The sapphic women who love you so [05:01.23]Still cry every spring when the fennel goes [05:05.07]And the wheat and the barley and the hardy rye [05:08.57] [05:09.10]Wither and go to seed [05:11.28] [05:12.49]I walk down to the old stone church [05:16.21]Where the joe pye w**d and the mallows grow [05:19.76]Those petals droop now heavy with rain [05:23.13] [05:23.88]Watch them bob and bow when the wind does blow [05:27.63]There my favorite cypress tree [05:30.81]As tall as the steeples I can see [05:34.40]They've tied a yellow ribbon 'round its trunk [05:37.79]That covers your name where I carved it twice [05:41.68]I rip that ribbon off the tree [05:45.23]Burn it down by the river that now shares your name [05:48.76] [05:49.42]Place the ash where the water ravenously licks the riverbank [05:55.31] [05:57.31]We used to walk past the blue schoolhouse [06:03.41] [06:04.79]You wore our love like it was a crown [06:10.18] [06:10.78]And our skin was a map I knew by heart [06:17.84] [06:18.62]We never once got lost [06:21.37] [06:22.88]We never once got lost [06:25.14] [06:26.67]No one wants to believe you died in vain