Interview with Chris McCaughan via avclub.com:
I was born in Chicago. The kind of place that lives in your blood and bones. And I did grow up, like the song says, in a northside neighborhood just west of a cemetery. [Daniel] Burnham is buried there. So “Cemetery West” is a song of origins, of half-...
Cemetery West
Grew up in Cemetery West
Now I float like a ghost above the streets
I carried a broken compass
Always led me back to the same coordinates
I kept going lots of places
I kept ending up somewhere I’d been before
I see myself in those lost faces
Whatever I have left to do has just begun
I…. I…. I…
I… won’t let the darkness catch me this time
Don’t let nostalgia rule your world
Estranged from my brother- his name echoes through the rain
The pain inside my ears rings loud
Let the grass grow over all those graves
I…. I…. I…
I… won’t let the darkness catch me this time
I sift through the sand of names
You’re one in a billion tiny grains
Trigga please- don’t fail me
Won’t let the darkness catch me this time (4x)
I…I…I…(2x)
Cemetery West was written by Sundowner.
Sundowner released Cemetery West on Tue Sep 03 2013.