When We Were Trees Lyrics

Manchester Orchestra When We Were Trees

You fell too fast Like a cannon ball But the fishnet stocking hands caught me again And your head explodes like nothing's wrong My God, we laid there silent, for an hour And the birds they watched like a funeral And they sang us all their pretty funeral songs Yahweh, Yahweh Halleluia What a mess that you have made again this time Tempt us, Tempt us hallelujiah And the birds they cry and watch us as we squall And as we fall

And we must have laid alone for hours I could feel your cold blood creeping up my arm And I asked you if you were all right But the bubbles from your mouth gave out alarm And our mothers ran towards your ghost While our fathers tried to fix your eggshell head? And they're singing humpty dumpty Halleluia The king himself could not fix you again Now I sing because I miss you And I meant to tell you that but I was scared I was scared