Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Shearwater
Canonical path: /shearwater/run-the-banner-down
Related lyric paths: 6
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Run The Banner Down
Read Run The Banner Down lyrics by Shearwater on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Run The Banner Down
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Run the banner down
And hide in the broken palms
Till out of the blackness comes
Point of starry light
And a mountain moves
And the pressure drops
Snow on your open palms
Under a northern star
Leave the tape unwound
Film unthreaded
In the summer rain
With your image unfrozen
And thrown into the lake
Where the words rebound
With the way laid out
Your hands on my shoulders
Open your mouth
Close your eyes
Open your mouth
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