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Back In The Tall Grass

Back In The Tall Grass lyrics by Future Islands. Home isn't open It's like, when you get here The tracks by the creek bed The minnow's the body Crawdads with...

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Back In The Tall Grass

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Home isn't open

It's like, when you get here

The tracks by the creek bed

The minnow's the body

Crawdads with their heads down low

Back in the tall grass

Stinging my cattails oh!

Looking for brother

It feels like winter

But it's the heart of the summer

We can't go swimming

As long as we slumber

Cuz we're a long way from home

A long way from home

How did we get here?

One step takes me home

Two steps back on my own

Three skips to each stone

Four steps back and I'm gone

And I wanted you to know

I was thinking about you

And you look like a rose

Especially, when I'm a long way from home

A long way from home

How did we get here?

Back to the body

Words jump like salmon

One step takes me home

Two steps back on my own

Three skips to each stone

Four steps back and I'm gone

And I wanted you to know

I was thinking about you

And you look like a rose

Especially, when I'm a long way from home

In that backwater

Running through the woods

In that red water

In the mirror

Thinking of you

Spend all day just thinking of you

In the mirror thinking of you

Spend my days just thinking of you

And I wanted you to know

I was thinking about you

And you look like a rose

Especially, when I'm a long way from home

Long way from home

(Long way from home)

Long way from home

(Long way from home)

Long way from home...

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