The Old Plantation

The old plantation has been abandoned

The love is gone yeah the love is gone

New hieroglyphics braid the columns

Kids on the M-Train baptize the lawns



Your floating jukebox stuck on "I'll get you"

So lost at sea yeah so lost at sea

You watch the rations you man the spyglass

So far from Memphis rivers from me.



But did you ever really try

To peel away the sky

Neither did I



The master bedroom its shutters hanging

It's no museum it's no museum

The fields are barren but for a bonfire

A pile of empties in the mausoleum



But did you ever really try

To peel away the sky

Neither did I



God bless the shelter so bruised and battered

God bless the days yeah god bless the days

The old plantation is like a sore now

A home for maggots but don't turn away



Don't turn away until you try

To peel away the sky



Don't turn away until you try

To peel away the sky