To the Boneyard
Los Campesinos! * Track #6 On Whole Damn Body
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Album Whole Damn Body
To the Boneyard by Los Campesinos!
Performed by
Los Campesinos!Produced by
John Goodmanson & Tom BromleyWrited by
Gareth David & Neil BealeAbout
“This song kind of envisages me returning home from tour to an apocalyptic version of where I grew up (and will continue to grow older). The scenery and backdrop echoes To Tundra, as is clear from the title. Whereas the track from Hello Sadness was essentially yearning and hopeful, To The Boneyard h...
To the Boneyard Lyrics
[Verse 1: Gareth]
Respite in twilight, space in the cavity wall at grandparent's house behind the apple tree
Where once you sang with your siblings now watching bodies bobbing down the stream, leaving the town
[Verse 2: Gareth]
I'm a picture of no flesh, only bones as we're stripping off my skin to run it up the pole
And salute the breeze that ripples the sheath of the skeleton that's trembling on the ground beneath
[Chorus: Gareth, Gareth & Kim]
Walked your entire country up the central reservation
Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation
Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
[Bridge: Gareth]
We rifle through piles of bones
For something to chew on
For something to own
[Verse 3: Gareth, Gareth & Kim]
Through my teenage years at my mother's house, every evening, six times, there comes a phone call to ask
"Where's my daughter gone?" She moved six years ago
Now receiver's cold, the phone calls dry, there's no one home
And that is what we feared the most
[Chorus: Gareth, Gareth & Kim]
Walked your entire country up the central reservation
Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
The deadest stare, the slackest hair, the saddest conservation
Take me to the boneyard, baby, take me to the boneyard, baby
[Bridge: Gareth]
We rifle through piles of bones
For something to chew on
For something to own
We rifle through piles of bones
For something to chew on
For something to own
[Outro: Gareth, Gareth & Kim]
(Take me to the boneyard, baby)
And so we stitched our eyes and mouths closed lest we open them
(Take me to the boneyard, baby)
Breaking the seal that our bodies have formed
(Take me to the boneyard, baby)
As a natural defence just to hold back the sorrow
(Take me to the boneyard, baby)
That friends made today will be deaths mourned tomorrow
Take me to the boneyard, baby
To the Boneyard Q&A
Who wrote To the Boneyard's ?
To the Boneyard was written by Gareth David & Neil Beale.
Who produced To the Boneyard's ?
To the Boneyard was produced by John Goodmanson & Tom Bromley.