Slunk Away from Ghosts by Jesse Lark
Tracklist
| 4. | Slunk Away | 3:22 |
Lyrics
Slunk away so silently the sentries didn’t notice me and laid in wait until the time I’d come back to the scene the crime. They didn’t have to wait an age, I’d contemplated every day the things I’d done in brutish style, the foolish ways I’d left my scent. Repentance wasn’t on my mind – the file the policemen had sent I’d seen. // My shadow slunk away and so did the rest of me, my shadow slunk away and so did she // Obscene it was, the thoughts they kept, the things they thought the story meant. If only one or three of them had been the places where I crept, the alleys in the blackened night, the soaring sparrows overhead. If only, well, then things would go a different way than how you know they will. // My shadow slunk away and so did the rest of me, my shadow slunk away and so did she // It isn’t quite a bitter pill. There’s hope still even after death. She told me so, (you know,) with her last breath. // // My shadow slunk away and so did the rest of me, my shadow slunk away and so did she.
