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Drawing from childhood memories, this song describes creek behind Newport Elementary School where Samuel T. Herring used to play in as a kid on his way home from school, while growing up in Eastern North Carolina.
According to Herring
“Back in The Tall Grass” was a song that [was] written in a ti...
Home isn't open
It's like, when you get here
The tracks by the creek bed
The minnow's the body
Crawdads with their heads down low
Back in the tall grass
Stinging my cattails, oh!
Looking for brother
It feels like winter
But it's the heart of the summer
We can't go swimming
As long as we slumber
'Cause we're a long way from home
A long way from home
A long way from home
How did we get here?
[Pre-Chorus]
One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone
[Chorus]
And I wanted you to know
I was thinking about you
And you look like a rose
Especially
When I'm a long way from home
A long way from home
A long way from home
How did we get here?
Back to the body
Words jump like salmon
[Pre-Chorus]
One step takes me home
Two steps back on my own
Three skips to each stone
Four steps back and I'm gone
[Chorus]
And I wanted you to know
I was thinking about you
And you look like a rose
Especially
In that backwater
Running through the woods
In that red water
In the mirror
Thinking of you
Spend all day just thinking of you
In the mirror thinking of you
Spend my days just thinking of you
Oh, baby, thinking of you
All day, thinking of you
[Chorus]
And I wanted you to know
I was thinking about you
And baby you look like a rose
Especially
Long way from home (Long way from home)
Long way from home (Long way from home)
Long way from home
Back in the Tall Grass was written by Gerrit Welmers & William Cashion & Samuel T. Herring.
Back in the Tall Grass was produced by Chris Coady.
Future Islands released Back in the Tall Grass on Mon Mar 24 2014.