| Song | The Tailor |
| Artist | Blitzen Trapper |
| Album | Destroyer of the Void |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| I'm a long way from my home | |
| I was born on the raging sea | |
| And when I first struck land, | |
| With my head in hand | |
| I built a house out of an old oak tree | |
| And raised a family out of earth and electricity | |
| I was king of my domain | |
| But my fortitude had proved in vain | |
| And when the locusts came | |
| Like a summer rain | |
| Devouring everything that | |
| I held dear | |
| And all I'd worked for simply disappeared | |
| So I crept away | |
| For I had debts to pay | |
| And joined the army as a privateer | |
| Yeah, it was then, the wind it whispered | |
| But I would not hear | |
| So we sailed out across the land | |
| Through an ocean made of sinking sand | |
| And though | |
| I lost my men, | |
| I was born again | |
| As a tailor in an unknown land | |
| With a needle and some thread in hand | |
| Mending suits and slacks, | |
| Stitching up the cracks | |
| In the backs of my neighbors’ heads | |
| And soon the word, yeah, of my work, it spread through the town | |
| So before the king | |
| I stoodI said, “ | |
| I come from the raging sea | |
| And if the truth be told, | |
| I am not so old | |
| As you may first have taken me to be | |
| For numbers never could apply to me | |
| For I’m as old as time, | |
| And maybe half as blind | |
| What some of you might call infinity | |
| I am the tailor of the earth and electricity.”--> |
| I' m a long way from my home | |
| I was born on the raging sea | |
| And when I first struck land, | |
| With my head in hand | |
| I built a house out of an old oak tree | |
| And raised a family out of earth and electricity | |
| I was king of my domain | |
| But my fortitude had proved in vain | |
| And when the locusts came | |
| Like a summer rain | |
| Devouring everything that | |
| I held dear | |
| And all I' d worked for simply disappeared | |
| So I crept away | |
| For I had debts to pay | |
| And joined the army as a privateer | |
| Yeah, it was then, the wind it whispered | |
| But I would not hear | |
| So we sailed out across the land | |
| Through an ocean made of sinking sand | |
| And though | |
| I lost my men, | |
| I was born again | |
| As a tailor in an unknown land | |
| With a needle and some thread in hand | |
| Mending suits and slacks, | |
| Stitching up the cracks | |
| In the backs of my neighbors' heads | |
| And soon the word, yeah, of my work, it spread through the town | |
| So before the king | |
| I stoodI said, " | |
| I come from the raging sea | |
| And if the truth be told, | |
| I am not so old | |
| As you may first have taken me to be | |
| For numbers never could apply to me | |
| For I' m as old as time, | |
| And maybe half as blind | |
| What some of you might call infinity | |
| I am the tailor of the earth and electricity." |
| I' m a long way from my home | |
| I was born on the raging sea | |
| And when I first struck land, | |
| With my head in hand | |
| I built a house out of an old oak tree | |
| And raised a family out of earth and electricity | |
| I was king of my domain | |
| But my fortitude had proved in vain | |
| And when the locusts came | |
| Like a summer rain | |
| Devouring everything that | |
| I held dear | |
| And all I' d worked for simply disappeared | |
| So I crept away | |
| For I had debts to pay | |
| And joined the army as a privateer | |
| Yeah, it was then, the wind it whispered | |
| But I would not hear | |
| So we sailed out across the land | |
| Through an ocean made of sinking sand | |
| And though | |
| I lost my men, | |
| I was born again | |
| As a tailor in an unknown land | |
| With a needle and some thread in hand | |
| Mending suits and slacks, | |
| Stitching up the cracks | |
| In the backs of my neighbors' heads | |
| And soon the word, yeah, of my work, it spread through the town | |
| So before the king | |
| I stoodI said, " | |
| I come from the raging sea | |
| And if the truth be told, | |
| I am not so old | |
| As you may first have taken me to be | |
| For numbers never could apply to me | |
| For I' m as old as time, | |
| And maybe half as blind | |
| What some of you might call infinity | |
| I am the tailor of the earth and electricity." |