Burning Bush (Brown/Millard)
Why would you leave your house and home
To sleep with strangers in your concrete fields?
Worrying that scrip for the all-unknown
The whisky whisperings that are never revealed
They rented out your bulrush bedroom
The mirror stares down every push
Light comes late to find you wonder where your wonder went
Take off your shoes for the burning bush
Nobody who's walked this ground
In Wellingtons, wading boots, battered wingtips
Goes right back to their life in town
Or lets a simple word fall from their lips
You slipped the noose and let your hair grow wild
Ignoring the shadow who shares your name
And glares through the eyes of a cannibal child
And claims you should've stayed tamed and shamed
Why would you leave your house and home
To sleep with strangers in your concrete fields?
Leaving the dead for the all-unknown
The whisky whisperings that are never revealed
You trod the earth on fallen arches
The mountain stares down every push
On every face you will be smashing up your testament
Take off your shoes for the burning bush
Nobody who's seen this place
The stone-solid and the out-of-their-tree
Wipes the thousand-mile stare from their face
There are sights you can never unsee
You hail Black Maria by the gleaming fire
Exhilarated and a little unhinged
Once you step out onto that wire
You're gonna be singed by the moonsick fringe
Take off your shoes for the burning bush
Can't roll your eyes at the burning bush
Moment of silence for the burning bush
Lose the shoes for the burning bush
All songs © 2009 SHANGHAI LOVE MOTEL
