Glen Hansard Farewell Transmission song lyrics

The whole place is dark

Every light on this side of the town

Suddenly it all went down

Now we'll all be brothers of the fossil fire of the sun

Now we'll all be sisters of the fossil blood of the moon

Someone must have set us up

Now they'll be working in the cold grey rock,

Now they'll be working in the hot mill steam,

Now they'll be working in the concrete

In the sirens and the silences now all the great set up hearts

All at once start to beat

After tonight if you don't want us to be a secret out of the past

I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it

I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ashes

feel his ghost breathing down my back

I will try and know whatever I try, I will be gone but not forever

I will try and know whatever I try, I will be gone but not forever

The real truth about it is no one gets it right

The real truth about it is we're all supposed to try

There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross

The real truth about it is, my life's no better off

I've got the map, but water that's lost

We will try and know whatever we'll try,

We will be gone but not forever

We will try and know whatever we'll try,

We will be gone but not forever

The real truth about it is there ain't no end to the desert I'll cross

I've really known that all along

Mama here comes midnight with the dead moon in its jaws

Must be the big star about to fall

Mama here comes midnight with the dead moon in its jaws

Must be the big star about to fall

Long dark blues

I'll go where

Long dark blues

The big star is falling

Long dark blues

I'll go where

Through the static and distance

Long dark blues

A farewell transmission

Long dark blues

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Long dark blues

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Long dark blues

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Long dark blues

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