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Between the Lightning and the Thunder

from Age and Wonder by The Waxwings

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Just another existential, pre-apocalyptic love song.

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Night—settles down like dust on the land
Time—buries us under with the sweep of the second hand

Gonna send my horses over the hill
Bury a jar full of seven-dollar bills
Black clouds break with fear and wonder
Counting the seconds between the lightning and the thunder

Lick your finger and check the wind
Looks like the end is about to begin
Coin’s in the air gotta call heads or tails
Kneel down in the ballast with your ear to the rail

It’s comin round the bend
It’s comin round. Can’t see where it starts but you know where it ends

Right now is all we got
Right now is all we need
Holding onto you
You’re the only one who can get me through

We—all pretend we don’t know what we know
We—all pretend we won’t reap what we sow

How long the fences and how long the walls
That keep the world so impossibly small
The same earth trembles under all our feet
The vandals hit every house on the street

If you don’t get it then there’s nothing to get
All the hungry people that you never met
And the ghosts that haunt the castle walls say
For every kingdom that rises there’s a kingdom that falls

And we got no place to go
We set sail but the stars won’t shine and the wind won’t blow

Right now is all we got
Right now is all we need
Holding onto you
You’re the only one who can get me through

The Moon so pale the sky so black
Birds gone south they’re not coming back
Sky so black the moon so pale
Light a fire in the belly of a whale

South side north side east side west
Cow-bird takes the sparrows nest
North side south side west side east
Sing your heart out in the belly of the beast

It’s our only chance
We just have time for one more song and one more dance

Right now is all we got
Right now is all we need
Holding onto you
You’re the only one who can get me through

The curtain’s coming down
The houselights coming up
Turns out we’re not alone
Never send to know for whom the bell tolls

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from Age and Wonder, track released August 8, 2011
written by Eric Schopmeyer
performed by the Waxwings
[Eric Schopmeyer/lead vocals, guitar, harmonica; Adrienne Leverette/vocals, tenor ukulele; Kurt Weist/vocals, guitar; Mark Schopmeyer/banjo; Tony Jamesbarry/bass; Matt Marchyok/drums]
recorded and mixed by Kevin Nettleingham

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The Waxwings Portland, Oregon

The Waxwings is a band of friends from Portland, OR. We take our diverse musical influences (classical, rock, folk, what have you) and channel them through acoustic instruments to unearth themes of love, loss and the pursuit of soul-searching redemption. ... more

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