Future Islands Songs - Back in the Tall Grass Lyrics

Future Islands - Back in the Tall Grass

Future Islands - Back in the Tall Grass Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Singles
Released: 2014

Back in the Tall Grass Lyrics

Home isn't open
It's like, when you get here
The tracks by the creek bed
The minnow's the body
Crawdads with their heads down low
Back in the Tall Grass
Stinging my cattails oh!
Looking for brother
It feels like winter
But it's the heart of the summer
We can't go swimming
As long as we slumber
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Cuz we're a long way from home
A long way from home
How did we get here?
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One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone
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And I wanted you to know
I was thinking about you
And you look like a rose
Especially, when I'm a long way from home
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A long way from home
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How did we get here?
Back to the body
Words jump like salmon

One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone

(Chorus)

In that backwater
Running through the woods
In that red water
In the mirror
Thinking of you

Spend all day just thinking of you
In the mirror thinking of you
Spend my days just thinking of you

(Chorus)

Long way from home
(Long way from home)
Long way from home
(Long way from home)
Long way from home...

Writer/s: William Cashion, Samuel Thompson Herring, John Gerrit Welmers
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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The song finds frontman Samuel T Herring recalling walks home from school. "It's reminiscing on the times I'd lose my brother on the way, and then feeling that same emotion upon losing touch with someone later in life," he explained to Uncut. "And about how those early feelings of childhood may seen foreign to us as adults. Alive with curiosity and possibility, and at the same time experiencing fear in the face of loss and unknowing."