Sun Kil Moon - Cows lyrics

I drive the winter roads to
Navarre after they've been
Plowed i look off in the snow and
Saw the frost-bitten cows i
Stare into the big
Dumb, brown eyes and in those moments
I felt tranquilized

In those moments
I felt half anesthisized in those
Moments in the back seat of my Mom's car, I
Felt hypnotized in those moments
The AM radio played Riders on the Storm and
I fall into the state of euphoria

Zarathustra was walking and felt
Something warm and
Living something warm and living nearby that
Refreshed, and stumbled upon the hill like
Full of cows and in Nirvana
There was order and warmness


That touched his heart
And there among them was
The mountain sermonizer
"What do you see, kid?", I asked Zarathustra
"Same things as you see", the mountain
Man said "Happiness on Earth
You peace-breaker"
"Why have you come here? Why
Have you disturbed them? Do
You not know that if we not become as cows
We shall not enter into the gates
Of Heaven? For there is
One thing we should learn from
Them and that is rumination"

In the end
Zarathustra talked him back to his
Cave of haunting zarathustra gave
The mountain man shit for
Loving cows more than
Money the mountain sermonizer said "Well
Guess what? I have news
For you, Zarathustra, I have decided
That, more than cows, i love you"
Zarathustra said "Enough of your
Flattery" and poked the
With a stick and he ran off nimbly
See, I grew up in Ohio in a
Rust belt town and growing up
I gazed off at
Thousands of cows in my prepubescent years
Throughout my
Teens i saw lots of dairy cows
Guernseys, and Holsteens from my perspective
The space between their ears was
Hollow they did not know
Yesterday from two seconds ago
From tomorrow from
My perspective, they did not feel happiness
They did not feel sorrow

Cows are harmless creatures
They are innocent every small thing they
Do is tender and sweet
And benevolent i looked back at
Those drives past with
Sweet sentiment it was good to get
Away from the downtown mass in
Ohio cement though those drives are sometimes
Boring and seem very far
I have fond memories of my mom dropping
Us off at a relative's in Navarre

Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow, Cow

Nietzsche's passage got me thinking about
Cows and this kick
Drum going "Pow pow pow pow pow pow"
Trigger the word "cow" and everything is
Unraveled from the word "cow"
And this kick drum sound "Pow
Pow pow pow pow" from this day forward
I solemnly vow to only once a month sink
My teeth into the flesh of a cow
From this day forward
I solemnly vow to only once a month sink
My teeth into the flesh of a cow
From this day forward
I solemnly vow to only once a month sink
My teeth into the flesh of a cow
From this day forward
I solemnly vow to only once a month sink
My teeth into the flesh of a cow

For I love steaks at Harris' restaurant on
Havana Street, and bulgogi in Seoul
Korea or in
New York on 32nd Street, and brisket at
Jack's barbeque on Broadway
In Nashville, Tennessee, and beef jerky at 7
11 when I'm on the road and I'm
Low on protein to give up
Cow flesh entirely and completely at this
Stage of my life I'm
Afraid would be very hard for
Me for half a century, i have
Enjoyed the tasty flavor of cow meat
Aw, it tastes so good, my mind's Chop Suey

See, as a kid in Ohio, driving
Out of town, they'd comfort me
Gazing off at the cows then later I moved out
To California and the most
Beautiful animals I
Still see are cows driving through
Petaluma over to Bolinas Point
There are many cows grazing
On the way to the beach, when I
See them, my body gets lazy
My mind gets all buzzy and hazy

Not far from my home is, in New Orleans now
Is a closed down dirty plant where
They used to be a statue
Of a cow why did I pick a home to a place
So close to where they process the
Milk of cows? Every night I
Went to sleep and woke up
To the milk truck sounds

And when I could barely walk, my dad worked
At Overland Dairy, seven days a week, i
Asked him just today how much they paid him
Weekly he said "I don't remember, Mark
That was so long ago but they gave
Me two free gallons of milk daily"
I said, "But
I remember mom pulling milk bottles out of a
Silver box a couple times a week"
He said, "Well, Mark
That's after I quit my job as a milkman"
I said "Oh yeah
That makes a lot of sense why it was
Mom who picked those heavy milk bottles
Up from the doorstep cause you had a
New job and you were traveling around"
He said "yeah
I was traveling regionally and was selling
Cold medicine from town to town"

I don't eat much chicken better
Find a better finger licking, but I
Do love fish and I love
Creole dishes gulf coast stores
Just-fried gator and crawfish i wouldn't
Be surprised if I
Died of a heart attack in Felix's in New
Orleans in fact if I fall over there
And died, do not get all sappy if I
Died in Felix's eating oysters and crawfish
Know that I died happy

"God is dead" with Nietzsche, on that
I agree but where he stands on
Cows, I can not totally proceed when
I look out at the animals
They radiate serenity cows are as close to
Perfect beings as it gets to me

I look out into the bay and see
The prow of an incoming scow
The picture calms my nerves when I
Stare out the window like a
Cow, my brain goes blank and I find
Peace in the here and now
I'm as calm as a pasture-grazing cow
Their moos, to my ears
Are sweeter than a cat's meow flash
Elorde fought many times at
San Francisco's Cow Palace and in the Garden
He fought Frankie Narvaez my favorite part
Of the movie Borat is the part where
He tries to kidnap Pamela Anderson
She runs away from
The crowd and she's running through
The parking lot screaming
He yells "I will give you
Your own plow" OK, that's all I've got
I've run out of thoughts about cows
At least for now