Our Coastal Hymn lyrics

Song information

Artist: Les Savy Fav
Album: Inches

Lyrics

Rally up my friends
Come and stand by my bedside
If I die tonight
Put my head inside a masons jar
Put it in the ocean
And send it out to sea
I'm wading because-

And when I hit some shore
And when my seal is broke
I'll split my eyes and lips asking
"Is this a judgement or a joke?"

This is a chance to make it up
This is a chance to dissect it
This is a chance to break it up
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Don't believe my lies
Of an afterlife spent drifting
After 30 hours I sank straight
To the bottom
Of the harbor near my home
There I lay alone
The spidercrab is finely clad
Beneath my cloak of brain and bone

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In the basement of the dress shop
They play poker on the weekend
Old men trading laces
It's an absolute disgrace

They never gave a tip to the boy who
Ran the route
They never gave a shit
What the paper was about
When they heard he'd died
They read the news that day
Just so they could see what his
Obituary would say
It said:
Rally up my friends and stand by my
Bedside
Rally up my friends and stay with me
Tonight