A Clown and His Pipe
Hands Like Houses * Track #6 On Ground Dweller
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A Clown and His Pipe by Hands Like Houses
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Hands Like HousesProduced by
Cameron MizellWrited by
Trenton WoodleyAbout
In an track-by-track done through Alternative Press, frontman Trenton Woodley had the following to say about this song:
This song is about expressing yourself under pressure, when you can’t find the right words to say what you want, how you want and when you need to. “Clown” is all about the vocals...
A Clown and His Pipe Lyrics
[Intro]
There's better ways for us to waste our days
Than returning stares that we borrowed for too long
For too long, swallowed up by an empty page
[Verse 1]
What starvation feeds you
Devourer of the words of a thousand authors and poets alike?
Wells have emptied to wet your thirst
So I'll shake down to the last
A drop of fluency just to carve ink into these precious words
To dedicate a thought in desperation
[Chorus]
We could light a fire and forge a silver tongue
And drawn beneath our blunt remarks
Fashioned from all of our meaningless change
What would it take
To pry these ragged teeth, to tear these jaws apart?
What would it prove
To wrench them from my heels, to shed them from my heart?
[Verse 2]
Swallowing swords, sharpened by turning cheeks between blows
I feel this is better left a performers art
It's a narrow throat that keeps a razor's edge from the heart
I'd rather not speak in tongues, but I'll make every breath
I'll make every breath a piper, charming flames
Singing and dancing, oh, out from their smoldering bed
[Chorus]
We could light a fire and forge a silver tongue
And drawn beneath our blunt remarks
Fashioned from all of our meaningless change
What would it take
To pry these ragged teeth, to tear these jaws apart?
What would it prove
To wrench them from my heels, to shed them from my heart?
[Bridge]
(Swallow the pen, devour the sword)
Swallow the pen, now I devour the sword
Inhale the proverbs whole
Spinning on static, gouged before the peak
Oh, in this chaos of frequencies it's so hard to speak
Now it's so hard to speak
This noise is nameless, it's stumbling like a beggar
Desperate for some kind of change
[Chorus]
We could light a fire and forge a silver tongue
And drawn beneath our blunt remarks
Fashioned from all of our meaningless change
What would it take
To pry these ragged teeth, to tear these jaws apart?
What would it prove
To wrench them from my heels, to shed them from my heart?
A Clown and His Pipe Q&A
Who wrote A Clown and His Pipe's ?
A Clown and His Pipe was written by Trenton Woodley.
Who produced A Clown and His Pipe's ?
A Clown and His Pipe was produced by Cameron Mizell.
When did Hands Like Houses release A Clown and His Pipe?
Hands Like Houses released A Clown and His Pipe on Tue Mar 13 2012.