Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Jawbox
Canonical path: /jawbox/ballast
Related lyric paths: 6
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Ballast
Read Ballast lyrics by Jawbox on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Ballast
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Blood marks the road
Where the animal left its life behind,
In a red stain
That the rain will wash away.
Fall of night foretold,
Sky colors like a bruise,
And i think of ones i used to know and
Of paths they had to choose.
For we are born and we remain forever
Trapped inside our heads.
No human chords are struck
Without a resonance in other lives,
But the echoes we hold onto seem
As arbitrary as the times.
For we are born and will remain.
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Jawbox performs "Ballast", and this lyric page sits inside the Jawbox catalog on LyroVerse.
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