Elvis Perkins Ash Wednesday lyrics

The tents go up as I go down
Down to the flats and into the sound
The closer I get to the city
The further I am from memory

In the green grass looking up
For the words of the angry sun
'No one' when he says 'No one'
Yeah, he means 'No one'

No one, no one will survive
Ash Wednesday alive
No soldier, no lover
No father, no mother
Not a lonely child

In the up and in the bedroom
A black and white of the bride and the groom
Will bring me to my knees
With the colorized bad dream
That takes its place on Ash Wednesday

White noise and love will be my only drug
On this day nine, suns away

From that sad, sad Saturday

When fire my friend, fire my villain
You take away yesterday to give to me today
When nothings free no now it's Ash Wednesday

So each day is Ash Wednesday
All this life is Ash Wednesday

All the doors are shut
And the windows barely opened up
The fire's all around
It's the ending of the drought

And we are ready now for tear gas clouds
On my mind, come on fill the house
Finally and weep for it's king and queen sleep

Both now in the arms
Of Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday