*Lyrics are an interpretation by The MusicBobbyLong Team  and not an official transcription*




THE BOUNTY OF MARY JANE

I will run you
Like a thread
Cause my wounded eyes
Will see again

Make peace with the sky
It's rain may bring you hope
But no siren will call
Brace your love for the fall

But I will fall upon this town
To call your name
My sweet suffragette

Now I will call upon this town
To hear your name
My sweet Mary Jane
My sweet Mary Jane

ooohhh ooohhh ooohhh ooh

But she's weighted down
With loss at her side
Onboard a ship
Of ghosts and lost prode

Now say hello to fate, dear
Wreck this story told
If you dress my wounds
I'll feel your cold
I'll feel your cold

Now I will fall upon this town
To call your name
My sweet suffragette

Now I will fall upon this town
To hear your name
My sweet Mary Jane

Cause I will fall upon this town
To call your name
My sweet suffragette
My sweet Mary Jane
My sweet Mary Jane

ooohhh ooohhh ooohhh ooh


THIS STRANGE LOVE

This Strange love won't wait
Won’t you write it out for me
Like it wasn't written up above
So I'm calling on angels arms

Strangers from afar
They pick and they hurt me
Like it's a fault laid written on my breath
My lazy mind needs his bed
So I’m thinking of being done

So if you think you might need to come
Crying out
Outdated, frustrated
Time to start
Calling on angels arms
Ooohh ooohh oh yeah yeah yeah

So thinking men wake in their heads
Pay nothing for free
It's their thoughts which pay my debts
So methanol mind full of ugly heads
With nothing left to spare
Crying out to the panic soaked sky
Thinking of being done
ooohh ooohh oh yeah

So if you think you might need to come
Crying out
Outdated, frustrated
Time to start
But see her far from the lonely
Children, asking her to see the sun
ooooooo yeah oh oh yeah yeah

So if you think you might need to come
Crying out
Outdated, frustrated
Time to start
With drunken kisses
Busted wishes are for
Time to start
Calling on angels arms
Calling on angels arms
Calling on angels arms
ooohh ooohh


TWO YEARS OLD

I lost my English soul
pulling out the corpses
sheltering in the trenches again
Crying for remorse

I laid my arms down
Walked away in a trance
There's parts of me laid out
All over France

So I took my last waltz
Got caught up in the wire
Wrote a letter for my love
As I hid from the fire

An old soldier carried me
Away to the coast
Bathed my wounds in the sea
I'm in the hands of a ghost
I'm in the hands of a ghost

And the boats came on in
I tried to run away
Ao I got taken high by the throat
In the burning light of day

Set down with the iron punch
So broken & alone
I left my blood on the beach
For the tide to take me home

See my girl she gave up
She had taken me for dead
She forgot all her promises
And everything she said

Living in the darkest dream
I rose up in the cold
These wounds that I have outside
Are two years old
See these wounds that I have outside
Are two years old

Living by the past
Living by the mile
I took the same walk down
That I did as a child

The flags flew full mast
Unaware of the fate
No one saw me walk down
At my very last parade

So thoughts turn into dust
So I headed for the mount
I strayed off the path
Waiting for the count

Living in the darkest dream
So broken and alone
This pain that I have inside is two years old
These scars that I have inside are more than two years old
This pain that I have inside is more than two years old
This scar that I wear inside are more than two years old

It's more than two years old
It's more than two years old
It's more than two years old
It's more than two years old
It's more than two years old


BEING A MOCKINGBIRD

The night it rests like a hammer blow
And breaks the morning it brings
The mad men are down on the crypt floor
Sleeping through their favours and sins

I trained myself to be hardened
And greet the bird like the day
I soared to greet lusty gamblings
And drenched myself in the dusk where they lay

I exchanged the dark for the darkness
And hung the belt from the wing
So the traitors may part with their malice
But I'll remember everything

I stood up and danced round the heckles
And planted the leaf from the book
I admit I love my romances
The blackbird, the wren, the rook

The church house won't harbour the coffins
But the docks they wittle their ships
To the pleasure the feast
And the memory and the soar of kissing her lips

I gave up myself to the dawning
Of the morning bird in first flight
I thought I ran the road of the pauper
I lost it all in the night
I lost it all in the night


PENANCE FIRE BLUES

I see papers and papers
Stacked up in formation
Which mean much before
They’re lined in the fire

As a bottomless heat goes
To harness your anger
Your blood and
Your deepest desire

Because there’s no truth stolen
That is ever brought forward
From the minds of the rioters
Looking face down on the gutter

Cause this world’s full of thinkers
And suffragette speakers
Who deny that they ever wear a dress
Oh this god forsaken town’s in a mess

hey

And all the truths we let out loose
Is desperate to amuse
As it grabs you by the throat
And strings out all the times you’ve used

But now you don’t belong
Whisper when you speak
Turn yourself to nighttime
Trying to find your feet

Oh let me run lord (lord lord lord)
Run lord, let me run
So let me run lord (lord lord lord)
Run lord, let me run

But as the morning awakens
That light sends a shudder
Twist of hope that held you down
Is left to rest and stir

You back down a hallway
To flourish the darkness
And you fool yourself
You did it all for her

aah oh hey

And all the truths we let out loose
Is desperate to amuse
As it grabs you by the throat
And strings out all the times you’ve used

But now you don’t belong
Whisper when you speak
Turn yourself to nighttime
Trying to find your feet

Run lord (lord lord lord)
Run lord, let me run
Oh let me run lord (lord lord lord)
Run lord, let me run

Seen your face before
Rich boy playing poor
Ravaging the whores
Ignoring constant calls

But now you don’t belong
Whisper when you speak
Trying to find the nighttime
Now you try to find your feet

Run lord (lord lord lord)
Run lord, let me run
Let me run lord (lord lord lord)
Run lord, let me run
Run lord (lord lord lord)
Run lord, let me run


LEFT TO LIE

I'm afraid to die
I'm nearly old
I'm almost young
Or so I'm told

You say time is a healer
Faith is death
Or left to die
I won't put my strain on another
Broken shame
And so I’ll lie

I'm left to lie
I floated down
Like a long lost dream
As my savior flew
From his stitched up seams

Cause I'm afraid to die
I'm nearly old
I'm almost young
So I'm told

They say I would be better
Far from here
Left alone
But now my luck's even cheaper
I'm played out by the traffic drones
I'm still alone
Nowhere to go

I floated down
Like a long lost dream
'Cause my savior flew
From his stitched up seams
'Cause my friends think I
Will be the first to die
I'm far, far too scared
To ask them why
'Cause I'm afraid to die

I'm nearly old
I'm almost young
Or so I'm told
Or so I'm told


DEAD AND DONE

Heaven is a place where people die pretty
Stars don't lie and there's cash in the kitty
Running from the rocks, there's water for the lips
To ease your mouth and bathe your fist

There's no need for trouble when the road's all down
The body's out of work cause the minds in town
The circus has been twice already
My throwing arm is good and my heart is steady

I'm dead and done by the heat of the sun
And I'll rest my hat in an Autumn field
And I'll hang my hat in an Autumn field
In an Autumn field

Tell my momma not to worry
The food is sweet and the weather's been sunny
And I'm well known round a-bout
The local pick pocket it a lay-about

Tell my daddy oh there's no need for washing
They do it in your sleep when you're not watching
I've already had the neighbors here
Johnny Cash came about and we split a beer

I'm dead and done by the heat of the sun
And I'll rest my hat in an Autumn field
And I'll hang my hat in an Autumn field
In an Autumn field

Oh

The girls up here sure look swell
They sing like birds, I hear it's nothing like hell
The local priest says there's no need for cheatin'
The local wags call it meetin' and a-greetin'

I'm dead and done by the heat of the sun
And I'll rest my hat in an Autumn field
And I'll hang my hat in an Autumn field


WHO HAVE YOU BEEN LOVING

When the world holds out its flag
The sun will fall across the plain
I will hold out my hands and take the blame

When the weather falls to cold
The frost ravages the lanes
I will bow down my head in shame

Who have you, who have you been loving
Who have you, who have you been loving
Who have you, who have you been loving
Who have you, who have you been loving

Hey

But if someone is unhurt
Then it’s gonna be me
For the tears that taint your heart
You’re so happy that you’re free

But if you’re no better now
Than you’ve ever been
You owe me an apology

Hey

Before the dusk falls to dark
I’ll have you banished from my mind
I just need a moments rest
To make it mine

And when the print of you is gone
With a last drawn line
Beyond the rusted sin of gloat
You’ve had your time

Who have you, who have you been loving
Who have you, who have you been loving
Who have you, who have you been loving
Who have you, who have you been loving

Cause if someone is unhurt
Then it’s gonna be me
For the tears that taint your heart
You’re so happy that you’re free

But if you’re no better now
Than you’ve ever been
You owe me an apology
You owe me an apology