Phantom Limb

Foals in winter coats White girls of the north File past one, five, and one They are the fabled lambs Of Sunday ham The EHS norm Verse 2 And they could float above the grass In circles if they tried A latent power I know they hide To keep some hope alive That a girl like I Could ever try Could ever try Chorus 1 So we just skirt the hallway sides A phantom and a fly Follow the lines And wonder why There's no connection Verse 3 A week of rolling eyes And cheap shots from the tribe And we're off to Nemarca's porch again Another afternoon Of the goat-head tunes And pilfered booze Verse 4 We wander through her Momma's house The milk from the window lights Family portrait, circa '95 This is that foreign land With the sprayed-on tans And it all feels fine Be it silk or slime Chorus 2 So, when they tap our Monday heads To zombie-walk in our stead This town seems hardly worth the time And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme Too far along in our crime Stepping over what now towers to the sky With no connection Bridge Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh Chorus 3 So, when they tap our Sunday heads To zombie-walk in our stead This town seems hardly worth the time And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme Too far along in our crime Stepping over what now towers to the sky With no connection Outro Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh, ohh Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh, ohh Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh Oh, oh-oh, oh-ohh, ohh