My Uncle's Navy

Album: Hell-On (2018)
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  • These memories are bitter in mood
    I'd cut them out myself if that were possible
    Kind you cry yourself blind about
    Kind that choke you out, choke you out

    Had an uncle who was not by blood
    Liked to scare all the little girls away
    And if you're tenderhearted you should stop the tape
    Snap the tape

    He pulled the heads off of garter snakes
    I cried so helpless for those dyin' creatures
    You know I cried so hard I pissed myself
    Twistin' away from the horror

    He was lost at sea
    Memories wear thick coats
    Kind that pull you down
    By refusin' to drown
    You're choked under the shape
    Of a sailor
    A sailor

    Deputized by the cruel God of children
    No running water in his soul, just a hole
    Echoed when he called your name from down the hall
    His name was a command that cuts the ears off fightin' dogs
    Then wipes the knife on his militia pants

    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on
    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on

    And he's braggin' all the while
    If I say that black is blue it's blue, black is blue if I say it is
    Black is blue, black is blue if I say it is

    I never wondered what made him that way
    Bullies are not born, they're pressed into a form
    And I hated those who gave him access to our days, the ones who did nothin'
    I still can't love them

    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on
    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on

    He was lost at sea
    Memories wear thick coats
    Kind that pull you down
    By refusin' to drown
    You're choked under the shape
    Of a sailor
    A sailor
    A sailor

    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on
    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on
    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on
    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on
    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on
    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on
    Curechrome
    When the silent stains on
    Curechrome
    Ooohhh Writer/s: Allan Carl Newman, Neko Case
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Peermusic Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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