Red Cow by ​mewithoutYou
Red Cow by ​mewithoutYou

Red Cow

​mewithoutYou * Track #5 On Pale Horses

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Red Cow by ​mewithoutYou

Release Date
Tue Apr 28 2015
Performed by
​mewithoutYou
Produced by
Will Yip
Writed by
Aaron Weiss
About

The first song released off their 6th LP, “Pale Horses”, Red Cow features a return to more traditional mwY vocal styles and driving guitars. According to the official mwY site, the song is “…about myriad of things like perception, Zionist, trains… ya know, kid stuff.”

Red Cow Lyrics

Before the Red Sea flood beneath a cornhusk dawn
We bid the Elkhorn run to a locomotive psalm
Until the pale horse comes along a rail withdrawn
Clanging loudward on, clanging loudward on
We bid the Elkhorn run until the red cow comes
I was a steadfast son, with thoughts and hooves divided
And on the arid ground of thirsty Zion’s hill
Cold waters tumbled down where the staff of Moses fell

What Pharaoh spell, what picture holds us now?

Behold the snake of brass, the wind was blowing backwards
Behold a golden calf, blighted leaves of Law
O for the land we knew before the frogs withdrew
In the fragrant pomegranate blooms where the tender locust flew

Behind the milk-white tombs, behind the milk-tank cars
We passed the North Platte yard on silver tracks unguarded
Out past the sambar herds, out to the outcast birds
In the rust of open wagons, Lo! the Blessed Virgin’s likeness
We watched the green figs fall from the Nebraska sky
How much were even passive things responsive to our watchful eye!

And let there be no doubt: so many figs and pictures hold us

In the wells of livestock vans with shells and garden sands
Iron mixed with oxygen as per the laws of chemistry and chance
A shape was roughly human, it was only roughly human
Apparition eyes apparition eyes Knock Apparition Knock eyes apparition eyes

Was he a violent man? Well, he had his genocidal moments...
Or penned by fiction’s hand? To whom could that phrase not apply?
How much are even lifeless sounds responsive to our listening ear!
What Pharoah now, what Paroah now, or Jew or picture holds us here?

Red Cow Q&A

Who wrote Red Cow's ?

Red Cow was written by Aaron Weiss.

Who produced Red Cow's ?

Red Cow was produced by Will Yip.

When did ​mewithoutYou release Red Cow?

​mewithoutYou released Red Cow on Tue Apr 28 2015.

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