Levi The Poet - Chapter Five: Tuxedo Black lyrics
[Levi The Poet - Chapter Five: Tuxedo Black lyrics]
My love
While you were weighing anchor, I
Was weighing my options, thinking
Why? like knowing would satisfy but
If love is true
Then the tide will carry mine to
You know I'd drown in
The undercurrent before I let myself
Lose our happy ending
It's the future I miss the most
Seventeen years from now, I
Want to be younger
And as carefree as I can be
I want you next to me
And I want you to reflect all of the best of
Me i want the fairy
Tale, parenthetical porch swing
Metaphorically morphing our distorted
Upbringing into enough of a string
To hang by to believe it can be redeemed
I was a man before I got the chance to
Be a boy mother said she wanted neither
Father said I was his joy he kept on saying
Things like, "enjoy your youth while you can
" but when the cancer started taking
It's toll, the roles reversed
And I cannot fathom what it
Is like to be eaten alive said he had
Ants beneath his skin, but even then
He'd tell it in a bedtime story:
"Son, there are colonies of Englishmen
With marching orders to see
To it that the Indians become just like them
Dressed up in distinguished garb to
Cover up their colors
And civilize them well, " he
Said, "in a similar sense
I've got tuxedo-black blood
Cells clothing those that bleed red if
You can laugh along with me
The irony is that I'll be
Better dressed than I've ever
Been when I lie to rest here in bed"
And you wondered why that Indian fort was
The one left standing i made
Sure that the natives won every time
We'd play that game man
I had mud clods filled with rocks that I'd
Launch at the backs of those backstabbers
(But admittedly, as you can imagine
It was a short-lived fame - what with all of
My neighborhood friends bleeding from
Their heads and everything)
"Life is pain, highness, anyone who tells
You different is selling something" Ah
It's not true the Dread Pirate
Roberts may have been awesome
But that kind of theology is a hell
Of a downer to subscribe to
I know there's beauty out there i'm sure
You see it on the ocean
Even if the crew has started to
Look as white as that whale
They're chasing i've been
Reading through Moby
Dick - seven hundred pages of
Old English and rhetoric and I can't
Really understand all of it
But Captain Ahab's looking pretty pale
Be careful i've been building our
Treehouse i hid it
Far enough away so that when we run, we can
Stay, and I wrote out the
Location like a secret
On a treasure map however long your voyage
You'll have a place to call
Home when you come
Back the ladder is nailed to the trunk and
I started hammering the foundation
To be sure that
We have something to build our future on
How I long for the day that
I get to see your face
My strength, my hope, my song
While you were weighing anchor, I
Was weighing my options, thinking
Why? like knowing would satisfy but
If love is true
Then the tide will carry mine to
You know I'd drown in
The undercurrent before I let myself
Lose our happy ending
It's the future I miss the most
Seventeen years from now, I
Want to be younger
And as carefree as I can be
I want you next to me
And I want you to reflect all of the best of
Me i want the fairy
Tale, parenthetical porch swing
Metaphorically morphing our distorted
Upbringing into enough of a string
To hang by to believe it can be redeemed
I was a man before I got the chance to
Be a boy mother said she wanted neither
Father said I was his joy he kept on saying
Things like, "enjoy your youth while you can
" but when the cancer started taking
It's toll, the roles reversed
And I cannot fathom what it
Is like to be eaten alive said he had
Ants beneath his skin, but even then
He'd tell it in a bedtime story:
"Son, there are colonies of Englishmen
With marching orders to see
To it that the Indians become just like them
Dressed up in distinguished garb to
Cover up their colors
And civilize them well, " he
Said, "in a similar sense
I've got tuxedo-black blood
Cells clothing those that bleed red if
You can laugh along with me
The irony is that I'll be
Better dressed than I've ever
Been when I lie to rest here in bed"
And you wondered why that Indian fort was
The one left standing i made
Sure that the natives won every time
We'd play that game man
I had mud clods filled with rocks that I'd
Launch at the backs of those backstabbers
(But admittedly, as you can imagine
It was a short-lived fame - what with all of
My neighborhood friends bleeding from
Their heads and everything)
"Life is pain, highness, anyone who tells
You different is selling something" Ah
It's not true the Dread Pirate
Roberts may have been awesome
But that kind of theology is a hell
Of a downer to subscribe to
I know there's beauty out there i'm sure
You see it on the ocean
Even if the crew has started to
Look as white as that whale
They're chasing i've been
Reading through Moby
Dick - seven hundred pages of
Old English and rhetoric and I can't
Really understand all of it
But Captain Ahab's looking pretty pale
Be careful i've been building our
Treehouse i hid it
Far enough away so that when we run, we can
Stay, and I wrote out the
Location like a secret
On a treasure map however long your voyage
You'll have a place to call
Home when you come
Back the ladder is nailed to the trunk and
I started hammering the foundation
To be sure that
We have something to build our future on
How I long for the day that
I get to see your face
My strength, my hope, my song