[Verse 1]
Tell my boys I’ll be back in spring
I found myself my own king
I took his crown, I took his ring
[Verse 2]
What if you ignored the cost?
Fostered eyes and fostered loss
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm, hm
[Verse 3]
Hold me like your own
Fostered pen, fostered bone
Tell all my girls I’ll be gone
[Verse 4]
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm
Who needs wings when I hear you sing?
Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm
Monolith was written by Joe Talbot & Adam Devonshire & Mark Bowen & Lee Kiernan & Jon Beavis.
Monolith was produced by Nigel Godrich & Kenny Beats & Mark Bowen.
Joe Talbot:
I was fascinated by films where four or five notes are repeated throughout and create this monolithic motif. There’s a sense of continuity but the mood changes depending on certain things like tone and instruments. I wanted to do that over a song, and we got our friend Colin [Webster] f...