Only Child

Jonathan Meiburg

[Verse 1]
Your mother's milk
Your father's anger
The razor wire surrounding him
And far below
Their droning engines
You lay in bed
Blowing out stars

[Verse 2]
The masters of
Your lonely kingdom
Pulled you along
With red-rimmed eyes
Through endless hours
Of drill and harness
Until you fell, surrendering

[Chorus]
But still they never laid the gun down, only child
They sit like lions in a sunbeam, only child
And never came down

[Verse 3]
Remember all
The roads descending
To who you were, for blurred-out miles?
You smolder now
Coals and embers
Under the frost of indolence

[Chorus]
I see you never lay the gun down, only child
You live your life behind a window, only child
And as you barrel down a bloodline, only child

[Verse 4]
Rise in the air over the mountains
Run like the days that cut them down
I see you now
As you relive them
Break like a wave, dissembling

[Chorus]
But when you're lying down among them, only child
There is no sound to fill the silence, only child. Forgive them
When you lay the gun down, only child, it's not surrendering--
Only you know how

Trivia about the song Only Child by Shearwater

When was the song “Only Child” released by Shearwater?
The song Only Child was released in 2016, on the album “Jet Plane and Oxbow”.
Who composed the song “Only Child” by Shearwater?
The song “Only Child” by Shearwater was composed by Jonathan Meiburg.

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