Song | Bastard Time |
Artist | Augie March |
Album | Havens Dumb |
Download | Image LRC TXT |
Nothing gave birth to time | |
Time has no birthday, no mum no dad | |
Nobody ever taught time | |
No social contract, moral code, no good no bad | |
And in the dirt, in the bottle of our poor atmosphere | |
The lesson here is never learnt | |
You feed on dogs bodies, on carcasses of government | |
You tongue the graft over the grief | |
Bastard time, you give no relief | |
But it’s said you give relief | |
You heal the wound like a crocodile saves its victim for later | |
What do you love? | |
Leaves turned, woods burned, ashes then are what you love? | |
Fraud time, child’s birthday | |
Spring deceit, brood love | |
Tiny feet, callous time | |
You light the womb like a pantomime stage | |
Give dress to plainness, cake to age | |
And make us clowns | |
You heal the wound like a crocodile saves its victim for later | |
You give the cheeks a rosy hue | |
As the lips are turning blue | |
This is the artist in you, bastard time | |
And you our guide to perpetual suicide | |
But what makes you sad, what makes you tired? | |
What says to you as you’re passing it by | |
“Oh no, no, no, this should never have died”? | |
To be the snake, and the sword, and the veil | |
To author the joke and be the sting in the tail | |
No currency can buy | |
No tale can ever tell | |
No thread can make a stitch in you | |
Nor any tolling bell arrest you |
Nothing gave birth to time | |
Time has no birthday, no mum no dad | |
Nobody ever taught time | |
No social contract, moral code, no good no bad | |
And in the dirt, in the bottle of our poor atmosphere | |
The lesson here is never learnt | |
You feed on dogs bodies, on carcasses of government | |
You tongue the graft over the grief | |
Bastard time, you give no relief | |
But it' s said you give relief | |
You heal the wound like a crocodile saves its victim for later | |
What do you love? | |
Leaves turned, woods burned, ashes then are what you love? | |
Fraud time, child' s birthday | |
Spring deceit, brood love | |
Tiny feet, callous time | |
You light the womb like a pantomime stage | |
Give dress to plainness, cake to age | |
And make us clowns | |
You heal the wound like a crocodile saves its victim for later | |
You give the cheeks a rosy hue | |
As the lips are turning blue | |
This is the artist in you, bastard time | |
And you our guide to perpetual suicide | |
But what makes you sad, what makes you tired? | |
What says to you as you' re passing it by | |
" Oh no, no, no, this should never have died"? | |
To be the snake, and the sword, and the veil | |
To author the joke and be the sting in the tail | |
No currency can buy | |
No tale can ever tell | |
No thread can make a stitch in you | |
Nor any tolling bell arrest you |
Nothing gave birth to time | |
Time has no birthday, no mum no dad | |
Nobody ever taught time | |
No social contract, moral code, no good no bad | |
And in the dirt, in the bottle of our poor atmosphere | |
The lesson here is never learnt | |
You feed on dogs bodies, on carcasses of government | |
You tongue the graft over the grief | |
Bastard time, you give no relief | |
But it' s said you give relief | |
You heal the wound like a crocodile saves its victim for later | |
What do you love? | |
Leaves turned, woods burned, ashes then are what you love? | |
Fraud time, child' s birthday | |
Spring deceit, brood love | |
Tiny feet, callous time | |
You light the womb like a pantomime stage | |
Give dress to plainness, cake to age | |
And make us clowns | |
You heal the wound like a crocodile saves its victim for later | |
You give the cheeks a rosy hue | |
As the lips are turning blue | |
This is the artist in you, bastard time | |
And you our guide to perpetual suicide | |
But what makes you sad, what makes you tired? | |
What says to you as you' re passing it by | |
" Oh no, no, no, this should never have died"? | |
To be the snake, and the sword, and the veil | |
To author the joke and be the sting in the tail | |
No currency can buy | |
No tale can ever tell | |
No thread can make a stitch in you | |
Nor any tolling bell arrest you |