Future Islands - A Song for Our Grandfathers lyrics

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, 'cause 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 'em wait
Gotta go a long way let's be brave
Don't make 'em wait
No, 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 'em 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