Hebrews 11:40
Lyrics
Masks hanging on the tomb walls
Where the coven grieves
Witches hiding in the brambles
Ground level down where the dry leaves
Blow and burn slowly
No ground is ever gonna hold me
Bright* candles in the manor
Where the curse takes hold
Bodies reassembling down where the worms crawl
Make your own friends when the world's gone cold
It gets dark and then
I feel certain I am going to rise again
If not by faith then by the sword
I'm going to be restored
Build fires to keep the beacon flashing
Where the earth lies flat
Blood calls to blood as the hours draw down
Invent my own family if it comes to that
Hold them close, hold them near
Tell them no one's ever going to hurt them here
Steal the treasure and try to leave town
Fight my way back down
Don't want to hurt anyone
Probably gonna have to before it's all done
Take to the hills, run away
I'm gonna get my perfect body back someday
If not by faith then by the sword
I'm going to be restored
Banter
- This is kind of an uncomfortable disclosure - I should tell you this song is about that feeling that you occasionally get that a body you inhabit was supposed to go to somebody else, and you're not sure how you feel about that, and then at some point you say, well there is actually nothing I can do about that, and you become a, what's the word - depressed.(2009-12-01 Webster Hall)
- [to the band] You go rest, I've got some things I want to talk about. [band leaves] Someday, I'll make good on my threat to just talk in the middle part. Yeah, I've been meaning to share some opinions, and just say terrible things. Please play a song. No, no! I have to tell you what I think. This is the thing guys my age - and you see them, because you're on facebook whether you admit it or not, you see either your uncle or whatever, if you're my age you see your friends, and you go, whoa, man, nobody asked you to share that opinion! You coulda just kept that one to yourself. And then the thing is, you know, I will, this dates me, but I consider it really gauche to bring internet speak to your actual verbal speech, I think they're different languages, and yet and yet and yet. It's good to say aloud to people, 'cause they need to hear it, shutting up is free. What's that apropos of? Nothing whatsoever. The original thought, where I would talk only and not play songs, that's where that went. I had one I wanna play. [strums] As is often the case, I didn't rehearse it. [laughs] I know what it is, I'm sitting here going, isn't this the one where you usually fuck up the lyrics? Well, we're gonna find out. I know why I mess up the lyrics, it's 'cause it doesn't have a narrative through-line. Guitar, why are you crackling? [off mic] C'mon man. I'll play it on electric, don't think I won't. [on mic] Yeah. That's right. Fixed my own guitar. Feeling myself right now. (2023-10-03 The Belasco)
Live Performances
Footnotes
- * Variant: "white" instead of "bright" (2023-10-03)