Garden of Elysian

Album: Violet Street (2019)
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  • In the time before we needed forgiveness
    You said, "Meet me after school at the top of Elysian"
    Sharing headphones and a plastic bottle of vodka
    In the distance, the crowd goin' wild in the stadium

    Orchestra playing under the bandshell
    Swaying together like cathedral bells
    They ring and ring and ring and ring and ring
    And I could only hear you singing

    'Cause she said, "When do you think we'll stop feeling like children?
    'Cause the last time I asked my mom she said she still did"
    As we pass, the cell towers disguise like palm trees
    She laid out across my lap and we kept driving

    Orchestra playing under the bandshell
    Swaying together like cathedral bells
    They ring and ring and ring and ring and ring
    And I could only hear you singing

    Mary in Harlem sitting quiet
    Imagine if we had stayed
    Tourniquet stems are blushing tide
    Love isn't worship, love is change

    Orchestra playing under the bandshell
    Swaying together like cathedral bells
    They ring and ring and ring and ring and ring
    And I could only hear you singing
    Orchestra playing under the bandshell
    Swaying together like cathedral bells
    They ring and ring and ring and ring and ring
    And I could only hear you singing Writer/s: Kelcey Ayer, Matt Frazier, Nik Ewing, Ryan Hahn, Taylor Rice
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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