Long Gone West - Last of the Condors

Guy beside me
Buys a drink
"You don't know me," I will say
But know: there's nowhere that's safe
on these great shores
You're the one who said
"Don't make a sound"
The voice it lingers on and on
We're two sextons digging their own graves tonight
When the Lord lays us down.

A body weighs so much
But will it be enough?
She was all I had in this waste of a world
Now the bullet says, you're up
We'll get the scales all evened up
In these long and shallow graves in the rain

And the world around you waits
As the water races down
You're the man that I unmade
Like the righteous hand of god
And the past it falls away
And the darkness rages on
No I won't regret a thing
When the Lord comes to lay me down
Long as you're cold and in the ground

Glad I found you
All this way
I've been circling for days
Like a condor, which makes you the carrion
You're the one who said
"Get on the ground"
The voice it lingers on and on
If you're a praying man, you best get on the horn.

And the world around you waits
As the water races down
You're the man that I unmade
Like the righteous hand of god
And the past it falls away
And the darkness rages on
No I won't regret a thing
When the Lord comes to lay me down
Long as you're cold and in the ground

A body weighs so much
For just a breath in mud
I will reap what you have sewn, in this world
So the soul, they say, goes on
But know I'll find you where you've gone
And we'll leave this mud behind, in the rain

And the world around you waits
As the water races down
I'm the man that you have made
And I stand before you now
And I'll bear the mark of Cain
Never know the grace of God
It's a price I'll gladly pay
When the lord come to lay me down

And he gonna lay me down
And he gonna raise me up
Goin down that lonely road
Till the sin and soil run off
And the past it falls away
And the darkness rages on
No I won't regret a thing
When Lord come to lay me down
All alone in this cold ghost town

Written by:
Andrew St. Laurent, Christopher Poling, Michael Rooney, Nathan Odell, Thomas McIntyre

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