A Song for Our Grandfathers - Future Islands

Been a long time, in a low place

Surrounded by what I have made

Need to get away

Get away from what relates

And what was done

Cuz it's all over now

Through the woods, I come running to loose leaf

And carve my name

In the lines, there's not a trace

I hear the ghost whisper, and those old eyes watching me

But I feel safe...

Grandfather looking over me

He said:

"Don't make them wait

Gotta go a long way

Let's be brave

Don't make them wait

Nah, don't make them wait"

I sat down, with a coffee on my bent knee

Looking out, at the burnt land, looking back at me

These used to be green crops

And high on a summer breeze

Now it's fallow fields and clear-cut barren weeds

They said that if I stared

The abyss would stare back at me

So I did...

And I felt it slowly creep in me

Save for the smoke, that danced when I took a drag

It made me think about the way it all came to be...

Grandmama watching over me

And she said

"Don't make them wait

Gotta go a long way

Let's be brave, show them the way

Nah, don't make them wait"

Don't make them wait, nah

Don't make them wait

I hear the ghost whisper

And those old eyes watching me

But I feel safe

I feel safe